Excerpt from The Ancient Lowly, Vol. 2: A History of the Ancient Working People From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine It was hoped that the Solonism of the combined brotherhoods, forming a microcosm, and its expansion, would have caused it to become a vast socialism with the me family tenets, elements of imperishable brother hood and votive franchise, and be converted into a uni vm'sal family association, owning and operating all the implements of labor and all the means of life, always patterning after the family nucleus wherein the govern ment beams father and mother, and the Citizens the children, having, like every well-regulated family, the common table, communal ownership, management in production and distribution, and the same communal code. This was the scheme originally embodied in the memorable order to go forth. This ancient scheme is still the longing of cheated humanity, and is the plan of nitration, and the Logos or Wordof Promise. The desolation of this great original scheme becomes the more blasphemous on the discovery of a large number of ancient papyri, inscriptions and other literature proving beyond (evil that the Word originally, as John inten peeted it, meant Work. 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.