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Excerpt from Natal: The State and the Citizen No one denies that, after the discharge of his private obligations, it is the duty of a good citizen to take his share in public work, yet comparatively few people carry this excellent platitude into effect. Some of the blame must be laid upon the carelessness and selfishness bred of a long period of development undisturbed by considerable civic crises. People who are comfortably off are often deaf to the claims of the less fortunate mass below the line of prosperity who might be raised to it by a more vigorous and disinterested administration. Thus it often comes about that public work is unfairly left to an active few, and sometimes falls into the hands of unscrupulous persons to whom the grinding of their own private axes is of more importance than the perfecting of the whole machinery of their state or city. We sometimes tolerate things in public life out of a discreditable indifference which in private life we should resent with all our might. But something is due to sheer ignorance also. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.