Towards democracy

audiobook

Towards democracy

by Edward Carpenter

EN·~10 hours·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

Transcriber’s Note:

10:32:17

Description

This expansive poetic meditation begins with a cry of freedom and unfolds as a vision of humanity awakening to joy, equality, and spiritual wholeness. Drawing strength from sunlight, stars, fields, birdsong, and ordinary domestic work, it finds the eternal within the everyday. The speaker moves between intimate revelation and sweeping cosmic perspective, inviting listeners to see life, death, suffering, and hope as parts of one connected whole.

Rather than presenting democracy only as a political system, the work imagines it as a profound condition of human fellowship. The laborer, the outcast, the child in poverty, the artist, and the lover all belong to the same living universe, deserving recognition and reverence. Lyrical, visionary, and sometimes challenging, this audiobook is suited to listeners drawn to meditative poetry, spiritual inquiry, social ideals, and bold reflections on what freedom might mean for every person.

Details

Language

en

Duration

~10 hours (607K characters)

Release date

Aug 30, 2026

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Edward Carpenter

Edward Carpenter

1844–1929

A visionary poet and reformer, he brought together socialism, spiritual inquiry, sexual freedom, and a deep concern for social justice. His writing still offers a striking portrait of a thinker determined to imagine a more humane society.

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