Excerpt from Crime and Education: The Duty of the State Therein When, however, the Jewish law passed away as the principle of legislation among men, and God's will of comparative equali zation was forgotten, in its place succeeded an equalization in another way - equalization by bloodshed, anarchy, and rebellion. It is my will, said God, that nations shall not display for any great length Of time the cupidity Of the wealthy, or the tyranny of the powerful, without suffering by violence great organic changes. If they will not have the spirit Of my law, by which I signify that too great discrepancy in their political and domestic state must be met by legislative provision; they must learn it to their cost by wars and revolutions. If they will not search for it in gentleness, they must be content to suffer it in violence. This truth may be traced in all the revolutions which have deluged the earth with blood, from the creation until now. It may be traced very positively in the history Of the greatest people on the face of the earth, next to the J ews, that Of the Romans. In the constant struggles we there behold between the patricians and plebeians; in the institution of the agrarian law; in the revolution of the Gracchi; in the social war, which had its fulfilment in the destruction of the republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.