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Page 1 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 13 - ... consider whether, even supposing it guiltless, luxury would be desired by any of us, if we saw clearly at our sides the suffering which accompanies it in the world. Luxury is indeed possible in the future — innocent and exquisite ; luxury for all, and by the help of all ; but luxury at present can only be enjoyed by the ignorant ; the crudest man living could not sit at his feast, unless he sat blindfold.
Page 13 - Government and co-operation are in all things the Laws of Life ; Anarchy and competition the Laws of Death.
Page 10 - A Government should so legislate," it has been ably said by Mr. Gladstone, "as to make it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong...
Page 14 - But we cannot all be physicians, artists, or soldiers. How are we to live ? ' Assuredly not in multitudinous misery. Do you think that the Maker of the world intended all but one in a thousand of His creatures to live in these dark streets; and the one, triumphant over the rest, to go forth alone into the green fields ? This...
Page 20 - JOHN HEYWOOD, Excelsior Steam Printing and Bookbinding Works, Hulme Hall Road, Manchester.
Page 13 - ... in our beds when we know that there are shipowners who send ships and men to sea for the sole purpose of being lost ? The facts are incontrovertible, and yet we never hang a shipowner, or a stink maker, or an air poisoner, ora polluter of our rivers, or a millowner who fattens on a high death rate among children.
Page 17 - Revolution is needed in regard to the crimes against decent living, which are committed by interested criminals. All people whose work produces noxious effluvia should be compelled, and there should be no exceptions, to deal with the noxious matter where it is made.