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          Edward Carpenter’s Towards Democracy is well-known as a starting point of his later work.

        1. Edward Carpenter’s Towards Democracy is well-known as a starting point of his later work.
        2. Towards Democracy is a long (four volume) prose poem which Carpenter regards as the start point and kernel of all his later works.
        3. Having sometimes been asked questions about "Towards.
        4. This four-volume poem dwells mainly on themes of freedom and equality; values that Carpenter wrote upon many times in his career.
        5. First published in , this influential work by the British socialist and philosopher Edward Carpenter explores the possibilities for a more just and.

          6. TOWARDS DEMOCRACY
          The Edward Carpenter Archive
          by Simon Dawson

          SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM TOWARDS DEMOCRACY

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          As explained in the introduction on the title page, Towards Democracy is a long (four volume) prose poem which Carpenter regards as the "start point and kernel" of all his later works.

          To put the entire work online would be major undertaking which I don't have the resources to complete. For now I will put up the first few pages, to give an indication of the sort of work it is, and also some of my own personal favourite sections.


          TOWARDS DEMOCRACY

          PART ONE

          The sun, the moon and the stars, the grass, the water that flow,
          round the earth, and the light air of heaven:
          To You greeting.

          I too stand behind these and send you word
          across them.

          I

          Freedom at last!
          Long sought, long prayed for - ages and ages long:

          The burden to which I continually return, seated here thick-
          booted and obvio