Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Better Day
When anyone points out the evils of our present social system, the question is immediately asked him, Well, how do you propose to better it? I take it that the first work is to show that there are evils, and to point out those evils; and the world will afterward attend to the better ing process for itself.
It may be objected that the agitation of these questions does not properly belong to poetry. I answer that poetry concerns itself with what is closest to the human heart. And what is closer to the human heart than human prog ress and human happiness; than equality before the law; than justice to all; in a word, than human liberty?
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