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...Emperor Jones is no tyrant. Mr. Shanks's principals got a fair shake too: for each old $1,000 bond, a $500 general mortgage bond, $500 in new Class A stock, four shares of common and $35 in cash (as back interest on each new $1,000 bond). Mr. Steere's stockholders of course got nothing, but since C. & O. owned other C. & E. I. securities, it will wind up with 12% of the new voting stock (16% if its bonds are converted)-the largest single voting block. For continuity's sake the reorganizers also left Charles...
...perhaps it was as well that it came when it did." Even so, his view of the partition is a Redcoat's, not a Yankee's. Without mentioning the Declaration of Independence, Lamb subtly offers the other side of its blistering list of grievances against the "Tyrant," George III. Lamb's own grievance is that, while the Revolution was right, its professed justification was righteous...
...morning rooms the tyrant's overthrow...
...reasonable than mean . . . then that human unit, large or small, is democratic. . . . But if . . . [it] is greedy, if it is suspicious of everything without and credulous of everything with in . . . turns to force to hold its place and win its way, then that social order . . . must turn to a tyrant for its hero and leader." Democracy, "awkward, sluggish, often sadly wasteful," nevertheless gives the freest play to the "common kindly impulse of organized humanity," but it will only survive if the democratically trained citizen - "naturally a bit lazy, instinctively inclined to improvidence, by birthright glad to let well enough alone...
...attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...