The man who burned up his barn filled with grain to destroy… - Joel Benton

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The man who burned up his barn filled with grain to destroy a hornets' nest is not alone in the world. He now has a cult and a body of disciples.

Joel Benton

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(May 29, 1832 – September 15, 1911) was an American writer, poet and lecturer.

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Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite </br> All are on their rounds to-night,— </br> In the wan moon's silver ray </br> Thrives their helter-skelter play.

They will see a generation here and now that is trying to lift itself over the fence by standing in a corn-basket and pulling upward on the handles.

The effort to make things equal is a problem too great for any but angels and seraphs to deal with. No merely human device can touch it without breaking or deranging the mainspring of civilization.

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