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... civilization itself . Even this extreme view of the danger embodied in the present condition of society is not an absurdity , when we reflect upon the evidences of ancient civilization existing in the ruins of the old world , and ...
... civilization itself . Even this extreme view of the danger embodied in the present condition of society is not an absurdity , when we reflect upon the evidences of ancient civilization existing in the ruins of the old world , and ...
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... civilization or it may retard it . If there be genuine progress , intelligence must reign . Let the discontented subjects of King Mammon inquire not what they have the power to do , but what they have the right to do , if they would ...
... civilization or it may retard it . If there be genuine progress , intelligence must reign . Let the discontented subjects of King Mammon inquire not what they have the power to do , but what they have the right to do , if they would ...
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... civilization in this world till the present time , seeing the rise and fall of nations , the growth of arts , sciences , and intelligence , and the gradual struggle from darkness toward the light , he would comprehend something of the ...
... civilization in this world till the present time , seeing the rise and fall of nations , the growth of arts , sciences , and intelligence , and the gradual struggle from darkness toward the light , he would comprehend something of the ...
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... civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condi- tion of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even pos- sesses the merit of stability . I do not hesitate to express the opinion that if there is no hope of a large ...
... civilizations appears to me to exhibit a condi- tion of mankind which neither embodies any worthy ideal nor even pos- sesses the merit of stability . I do not hesitate to express the opinion that if there is no hope of a large ...
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... civilization has been accomplished under competition , either among individuals or among tribes ; and individual competition existing for generation after generation has undoubtedly had its effect in developing the shrewd , active ...
... civilization has been accomplished under competition , either among individuals or among tribes ; and individual competition existing for generation after generation has undoubtedly had its effect in developing the shrewd , active ...
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Page 367 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 303 - England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the...
Page 323 - 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...
Page 119 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
Page 323 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 52 - I may, however, anticipate future conclusions, so far as to state that in a community regulated only by laws of demand and supply, but protected from open violence, the persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the...
Page 313 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst, pigeon of the flock...
Page 144 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 429 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 451 - Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.