"I speak now in relation between the Oppressor and the oppressed; the inward bondages I meddle not with in this place, though I am assured that, if it be rightly searched into, the inward bondages of the mind, as covetousness, pride, hypocrisy, envy, sorrow, fears, desperation and madness, are all occasioned by the outward bondage that one sort of people lay upon another."
— Winstanley, Gerrard (bap. 1609, d. 1676)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for the Author
Date
1652
Metaphor
"I speak now in relation between the Oppressor and the oppressed; the inward bondages I meddle not with in this place, though I am assured that, if it be rightly searched into, the inward bondages of the mind, as covetousness, pride, hypocrisy, envy, sorrow, fears, desperation and madness, are all occasioned by the outward bondage that one sort of people lay upon another."
Metaphor in Context
I speak now in relation between the Oppressor and the oppressed; the inward bondages I meddle not with in this place, though I am assured that, if it be rightly searched into, the inward bondages of the mind, as covetousness, pride, hypocrisy, envy, sorrow, fears, desperation and madness, are all occasioned by the outward bondage that one sort of people lay upon another.
(p. 18)
(p. 18)
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Provenance
Reading Christopher Hill, "Gerard Winstanley: 17th Century Communist at Kingston," lecture transcript, Kingston University (January 24, 1996). <Link to diggers.org>
Citation
Gerrard Winstanley, The law of freedom in a platform: or, true magistracy restored. Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England, Scotland, and Ireland. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government (London: Printed for the author, and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the black Spred-Eagle at the west end of Pauls, 1652). <Link to EEBO><Link to marxists.org>
Date of Entry
08/24/2011
