The Ancient Lowly, Vol. 1: A History of the Ancient Working People From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine (Classic Reprint)
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Much ofitscontentaisnew. Theidcasthatlayatthe bottom of the ancient competitive system, though in their day thoroughly understood, have been so systematically attacked and gnawed away during our nearly years' trialofthencwinstitution,thatmennownolongercom prehend them. The whole may strike the reader as news. Muchofit,indeed,readslikearevelation fromasealed hook; and we may not at first be able to comprehend it as a natural effect of a cause.
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A History of the Ancient Working People: From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine (Classic Reprint)
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Much of its contents is new. The ideas that lay at the bottom of the ancient competitive system, though in their day thoroughly understood, have been so systematically attacked and gnawed away during our nearly years' trial of the new institution, that men now, no longer comprehend them The whole may strike the reader as news. Much of it indeed, reads like a revelation from a sealed book; and we may not at first be able to comprehend it as a natural effect of a cause.
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Cyrenus Osborne Ward
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Political Science; Political Ideologies; Communism & Socialism; Business & Economics / Labor; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
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A History of the Ancient Working People, Vol. 2: From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine; Origins of Socialism (Classic Reprint)
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The law of universal sofliage was conferral upon the organized working people by both Solon and Name Pompilius, and we have found and quoted inscriptions giving portions of it. They were not guilds like the mean and selfish non-political oorporations'ot' medieval and modern feudalism, but real, genuine voting tmdo unions greatly resembling the later institution called the socialist trade and labor alliance.
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The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation
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Cyrenus Osborne Ward was an American author, editor, and labor leader.
Background
Cyrenus Osborne Ward was the seventh of the ten children born to Justus and Silence (Rolph) Ward; Lester Frank Ward was a brother. They were descendants of Andrew Warde who emigrated to Massachusetts and died in Fairfield, Connecticut, in 1659. Three years after Cyrenus' birth, in western New York, his parents moved to St. Charles, Kane County, Ill. , where until 1848 he aided his father in various frontier activities connected with farming, milling, and construction work, becoming meanwhile a skilled mechanic. He traveled extensively in the Middle West, touring as a violinist with a concert company.
Career
In partnership with his wife's brother, he built a hub factory at Myersburg, Pa. ; later he was connected with other manufacturing enterprises. He enlisted for the Civil War, but was rejected. In 1864, however, he was appointed machinist in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and while employed there became deeply interested in labor problems. His pamphlets and speeches attracted the notice of such journalists as Charles A. Dana and Horace Greeley and led in the late sixties to connections with the Sun and the New York Tribune. He traveled extensively abroad during the years when the international labor movement was being organized, attended several labor conferences, met Karl Marx and other noted labor leaders, and contributed to the Sun a series of articles entitled "A Mechanic Abroad" and "Cooperation Abroad. " On his return to America he resumed work as a mechanic and engaged actively in the labor movement as lecturer, writer, and organizer. His ardent support of social reforms and of the political organization of workers made it difficult for him to retain employment, and he finally devoted himself completely to the cause of labor. Establishing his own printing office, in 1878 he published his first book, A Labor Catechism of Political Economy. The extensive sale of this work enabled him to extend his activities as lecturer and writer. He also published numerous pamphlets and labor journals, including The Voice of the People, a newspaper. In 1878 he became associate editor of Man, a journal devoted to progress and reform. In 1884 he was appointed to a position with the Geological Survey at Washington, and soon thereafter was transferred to the Bureau of Labor, as translator and librarian. He had long been collecting information about the working classes of ancient times, and in 1887 completed the text of the first volume of his most noted work, A History of the Ancient Working People - later entitled The Ancient Lowly. Failing to secure a publisher, he set up a print shop in his own house, and in 1889, after two years of arduous labor, the first edition appeared. It immediately attracted wide attention both as a work of learning and also as an ardent and sympathetic interpretation of working-class history. Scholars were inclined to question the validity of many of his conclusions regarding the meaning of ancient records, but his use of inscriptions and casual sources and his emphasis on neglected phases of ancient life were recognized as contributing significantly to the study of antiquity. In 1892 and again in 1896 he traveled widely in Europe, studying current conditions and newly discovered inscriptions and sources in preparation for a second volume of the History, which he published in 1900. He died in Yuma, Ariz. , whither he had gone in quest of health. In addition to those already mentioned his writings include a drama based on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, The Equilibration of Human Aptitudes and Powers of Adaptation (1895), and numerous pamphlets, bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, and articles in periodicals.
Achievements
He exerted significant influence on the organization of labor, the movement for social reform, and the interpretation and utilization of history for the advancement of working-class aims.
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Personality
His distinctive traits were versatility combined with great energy and intensity of purpose, idealism, and sympathy for the working people, whom he urged to refrain from violence and to achieve a socialistic state by political methods.
Interests
His leisure was largely devoted to the study of botany, geology, and ancient and modern languages.
Connections
On October 25, 1857, he married Stella A. Owen of Wysox, Pa.