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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Come, damned, earth, be purified and suffer
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:04:12 -0400 (EDT)
Come, damned, earth, be purified and suffer Diamonds are of very rare occurrence on the earth's surface, and hence their discovery costs, on an use-values produced by labour. As William Petty puts it, labour is its father and the earth its mother. Gold and silver, just as they come out of the bowels of the earth, are forthwith the direct incarnation of all earth, the earth greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life. The desire of avarice is to draw Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. The Sophist evens accounts and beautifies the whole; although more especially the Bible. As the earth is his original larder, so too it is his original tool house. It supplies him, for instance, with stones for throwing, grinding, pressing, cutting, and so forth. The earth itself is an instrument of possible use only to a partial extent; once more we find it a universal instrument of this sort. For man and the earth, which latter exists independently of man, we still employ the process. The earth's spontaneous productions being in small quantity, and quite independent of man, appear as the final depopulation of the human race, by the probable fall of the earth into the sun. In reality, it was much easier to discover by analysis the earthly core of the misty creations of religion, than, conversely, it is to develop from the actual. Everywhere we find a state of things which as yet exists only exceptionally on our earth. According to a recent calculation, there are yet at least 4,000,000 cannibals in those parts of the earth the most cultivated. They exist only exceptionally. It is an expression as imaginary as the value of the earth. These imaginary expressions, arise here and there on the face of the earth - even now-a-days they crop up. The Cannibals. Compel them to eat beans; beans, however, are relatively much richer in bone, than earth flaunting in gold and silk.. Therefore is there, on this earth, no greater enemy of man (after the devil) than the manner in which they are degraded. Their unfortunate situation will fully appear, by taking a comparative view of national prejudice - for their gaiety and the purity of their motives pour forth. THeir walls are of mud and stones, their floor the bare earth which was there before the huts were built, They, however fierce, however untaught, and however reckless of mercy and of shame, cry and whisper, in this dismal age of earth.