There is, consequently, in these latter countries, almost literally, no diversity of industry, no science, no skill, no invention, no machinery, no manufactures, no production, and no wealth; but everywhere miserable poverty, ignorance, servitude, and wretchedness.
Spooner paints a dire picture of poverty and ignorance resulting from the absence of industry and wealth.
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And nobody is bound to take the least notice of them, unless it be to trample them under foot, as usurpations.
A man has a natural right to enforce his own rights and redress his own wrongs.
It is also sheer impudence, on their part, to assume that their commands are at all necessary to teach other men what is, and what is not, justice.
Proud from victory, and with their swords in their hands, would they surrender their liberties to a private man?