A Memoir- the Testament by Jean Meslier

Author:Jean Meslier
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2018-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

It would certainly be the same with all the parishes, if the people who compose them truly wanted to come to an understanding and live peacefully together and in common, to work usefully in common, and to enjoy precisely in common all the fruits of their labors and the goods they have in their possession, each in their own territory. If they wished it they might, in this case, and even with much greater ease than the Monks, erect pleasant and solid palaces and houses to comfortably house everyone, both themselves and all their herds; if they wished, they might make pleasant and useful gardens and orchards, where they could have all sorts of beautiful and good fruits in abundance; they might carefully cultivate and plant plots of land everywhere to harvest all sorts of grains; finally, they might, if they wanted, by this way of living in common, procure an abundance of all goods everywhere, and thereby find shelter from all the miseries and discomforts of poverty, which would enable them to live happy and contented, instead of enjoying, as they now do, separately from each other, of the goods of the earth and the comforts of life, the majority of them expose themselves and take on all sorts of ills and misery, since it’s impossible for there not to be an infinity of miserable wretches, as long as the goods of the earth are so badly shared and so ill-governed among men. It is, therefore, clearly an abuse, a great abuse even, for men to possess independently of each other, as they do, the goods and conveniences of life, and to enjoy them independently of each other, as they do, since thereby they are deprived of so many great blessings, and this exposes them to such severe evils and such great misery.

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