The Poverty of Philosophy
Translated by Harry Quelch
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The opening
CHAPTER I. A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
The work of M. Proudhon is not simply a treatise on political economy, an ordinary book, it is a Bible: “Mysteries,” “Secrets dragged from the bosom of God,” “Revelations,” nothing is wanting. But as, in our days, the prophets are discussed more conscientiously than the profane authors, the reader must resign himself to pass with us by the arid and gloomy erudition of “Genesis” in order to rise later with M. Proudhon into the ethereal and fruitful regions of supra-Socialism. (See Proudhon’s “Philosophie de la Misére,” Prologue, page i113, line 20.)
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- The words
- Harry Quelch's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
- OCR specks on the last leaf and the library's back-cover label (“THEOLOGY LIBRARY … PRINTED IN U.S.A”) (6 blocks)
- OCR speck (no word of the book) (46 blocks)
- OCR noise from the rules of Proudhon's table on the division of labor (“ee aS a a EO Gtr tts”)
- OCR noise from a rule above the footnotes (“a SNCS Shee Cth Pepe at Lin”)
- Closing line “FINIs.” after the end of Chapter II
- Closing line “THE END.” after Appendix III
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
- Other material that isn't the author's