sacred texts

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 27 10:14:22 PDT 2001


From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Subject: re: "one united brotherhood of free men" Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 12:32:57 -0400


>By the way, many web versions of the preamble contain this:
>
>>We declare that this Republic can only endure as a free government
>>while built upon the love of the whole people for each other and
>>for the nation; that it cannot be pinned together by bayonets; that
>>the civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which
>>grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as we
>>are in name, one united brotherhood of free [men].
>
>Why the bracketed [men]? Is something being elided, or was the word
missing?

Doug

In my copy of "A Populist Reader" (ed. George Brown Tindall), page 92, there are no brackets. The graph reads exactly as you have it.

max



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