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International Socialist Review, Spring 1958

 

An Ancient Custom

 

From International Socialist Review, Vol.19 No.2, Spring 1958, p.40.
Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.

 

The Cynic philosopher, Diogenes of Sinope, saw at Megara sheep protected by leather jackets while children went naked. “It is better to be a Megarian’s ram than his son,” he said. That certain features in our highly modern America have not changed much since ancient Greece is shown by the following observation of E. Ginzberg and D.W. Bray in The Uneducated:

“It is not comforting to realize that the Federal Government spends many times as much on assistance to migratory birds as on assistance to the children of migratory families.”

 
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