Merrie England: A Plain Exposition of Socialism, what it is and what it is NotCommonwealth Company, 1895 - 172 páginas |
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... idle people and vain things . Now to our problem . How are we to make the best of our country , and of our lives ? What things do we need in order to secure a happy , healthy , and worthy human life ? We may divide the things needful ...
... idle people and vain things . Now to our problem . How are we to make the best of our country , and of our lives ? What things do we need in order to secure a happy , healthy , and worthy human life ? We may divide the things needful ...
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... idle and so make nothing by you at all . But you know I can always beat you , for I have enough to live upon in idleness , and you have nothing . Well , it is true that the land and all the mines , mills , houses , and machinery - that ...
... idle and so make nothing by you at all . But you know I can always beat you , for I have enough to live upon in idleness , and you have nothing . Well , it is true that the land and all the mines , mills , houses , and machinery - that ...
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... idle capitalist , who pays men to work for him , and pays managers to direct them , but never works himself , 2. The busy capitalist , who pays men to work for him , and himself directs and manages the sale of what they make . 3. The ...
... idle capitalist , who pays men to work for him , and pays managers to direct them , but never works himself , 2. The busy capitalist , who pays men to work for him , and himself directs and manages the sale of what they make . 3. The ...
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... idle men were rich , and the indus- trious men poor , where men were rewarded not for usefulness or goodness , but for successful selfishness , would you not say that its methods were unjust and that its government was bad ? But of a ...
... idle men were rich , and the indus- trious men poor , where men were rewarded not for usefulness or goodness , but for successful selfishness , would you not say that its methods were unjust and that its government was bad ? But of a ...
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... idle , the best and most useful men are not the best paid nor the best rewarded , and that very often the greatest enemies of society reap the most benefit from society's labor . In short , English society is not a just society , nor is ...
... idle , the best and most useful men are not the best paid nor the best rewarded , and that very often the greatest enemies of society reap the most benefit from society's labor . In short , English society is not a just society , nor is ...
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Página 59 - The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
Página 59 - The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of ; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions so much the cause, as the effect of the division of labour.
Página 38 - Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day ; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men ; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine* How can he remember well his ignorance — which his" growth requires — who has so often to use his knowledge ? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him.
Página 24 - If England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind — would most, therefore, show the evidences of having possessed greatness — the England of the last twenty years, or the England of Elizabeth, of a time of splendid spiritual effort, but when our coal, and our industrial operations depending on coal, were very little developed?
Página 58 - He unroofs the houses and ships the population to America. The nation is accustomed to the instantaneous creation of wealth. It is the maxim of their economists, "that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Página 54 - The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: For ye have eaten up the vineyard; The spoil of the poor is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, And grind the faces of the poor? Saith the Lord God of hosts.
Página 31 - ... lying, flattering, voting, contracting yourselves into a nutshell of civility, or dilating into an atmosphere of thin and vaporous generosity, that you may persuade your neighbor to let you make his shoes, or his hat, or his coat, or his carriage, or import his groceries for him ; making yourselves sick, that you may lay up something against a sick day, something to be tucked away in an old chest, or in a stocking behind the plastering, or, more safely, in the brick bank ; no matter where, no...
Página 158 - Divinity taking outlines and color — light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust, soars from the shell that held a poor grub, which would never have found wings, had not the stone been lifted. You never need think you can turn over any old falsehood without a terrible squirming and scattering of the horrid little population that dwells under it.
Página 38 - Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
Página 12 - Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures ; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots...