"We shall remove the great cause of unnatural inequality in the distribution of wealth and power. We shall abolish poverty; tame the ruthless passions of greed; and dry up the springs of vice and misery. We shall light the lamp of knowledge in dark places; give new vigor to invention and a fresh impulse to discovery; substitute political strength for political weakness; and make tyranny and anarchy impossible."
Even in 1879 there were idiots writing tedious, delusional manifestos like this.
If only he had lived to see the democrat-run urban hellholes, byproducts of the Great Society and of idiotic, envy-filled screeds like his....