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Title: The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth

Author: Eugene Sue

Translator: Daniel De Leon

Release Date: June 8, 2010 [EBook #32743]

Language: English

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INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY.

THE SILVER CROSS

OR

The Carpenter of Nazareth

A Translation from the French

OF

EUGENE SUE

[image of the logo of the publisher]

NEW YORK:
Published by the INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING Co.,
23 Duane Street.

1899.

PREFACE.

Eugene Sue wrote in French a monumental work: "The Mysteries of the
People," or "History of a Proletarian Family." It is a "work of
fiction;" yet it is the best universal history extant: better than any
work, avowedly on history, it graphically traces the special features of
the several systems of class-rule as they have succeeded each other from
epoch to epoch, together with the nature of the struggle between the
contending classes. The "Law," "Order," "Patriotism," "Religion," etc.,
etc., that each successive tyrant class, despite its change of form,
hysterically sought refuge in to justify its criminal existence whenever
threatened; the varying economic causes of the oppression of the
toilers; the mistakes incurred by these in their struggles for redress;
the varying fortunes of the conflict;--all these social dramas are
therein reproduced in a majestic series of "historic novels," covering
leading and successive episodes in the history of the race.

The work here published in English garb is one of these historic novels.
It is chosen because of its singular fitness to modern times in one
important respect:--the unity of action of the oppressors, despite
hostile politico-material interests and clashing religious views; the
hypocrisy that typifies them all; the oneness of fundamental purpose
that animates pulpit, profes