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... inherited power and privilege , with inade- quate leisure for self - improvement , with little ambition for energetic effort , with no real expectation of rising above his half - servile condition , and with nothing but the empty name ...
... inherited power and privilege , with inade- quate leisure for self - improvement , with little ambition for energetic effort , with no real expectation of rising above his half - servile condition , and with nothing but the empty name ...
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... inherited wealth , which the two heirs have not produced any more than have the thousand youths who inherit nothing ... inheritance , and thereafter the two may say : " We own the earth — at least a very large slice of it — and if you ...
... inherited wealth , which the two heirs have not produced any more than have the thousand youths who inherit nothing ... inheritance , and thereafter the two may say : " We own the earth — at least a very large slice of it — and if you ...
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... inheritance to all survivors to be apportioned by lessening taxation upon them , and thus serving as a reward and stimulus to genuine competition . Under such conditions , Jay Gould's sons , instead of be- coming either money - tyrants ...
... inheritance to all survivors to be apportioned by lessening taxation upon them , and thus serving as a reward and stimulus to genuine competition . Under such conditions , Jay Gould's sons , instead of be- coming either money - tyrants ...
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... inheritance under the present laws and the neglect of the disinherited classes , is not merely unjust as a matter of abstract investigation , but , like all other social injustice , it is a very great danger to existing governments on ...
... inheritance under the present laws and the neglect of the disinherited classes , is not merely unjust as a matter of abstract investigation , but , like all other social injustice , it is a very great danger to existing governments on ...
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... inherited fortunes , and those feelings will die with inheritance , for the man who has had to accumulate his fortune by his own efforts will never sneer at another man who is compelled to do the same thing . The daughters of wealthy ...
... inherited fortunes , and those feelings will die with inheritance , for the man who has had to accumulate his fortune by his own efforts will never sneer at another man who is compelled to do the same thing . The daughters of wealthy ...
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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.