Excerpt from A Better Day When anyone points out the evils of our present social system, the question is immediately asked him, Well, how do you propose to better it? I take it that the first work is to show that there are evils, and to point out those evils; and the world will afterward attend to the better ing process for itself. It may be objected that the agitation of these questions does not properly belong to poetry. I answer that poetry concerns itself with what is closest to the human heart. And what is closer to the human heart than human prog ress and human happiness; than equality before the law; than justice to all; in a word, than human liberty? 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.