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... kind . The major premise of the syllogism here involved must be that the increase of wealth is a benefit rather than an injury to men . If the Christian moralist were called on to justify this proposition , he would be likely to appeal ...
... kind . The major premise of the syllogism here involved must be that the increase of wealth is a benefit rather than an injury to men . If the Christian moralist were called on to justify this proposition , he would be likely to appeal ...
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... - comes , who are often puzzled to find ways of spending their money , might discover in the study of this subject and in the construction of model tenement - houses , a kind of diversion quite CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . 27.
... - comes , who are often puzzled to find ways of spending their money , might discover in the study of this subject and in the construction of model tenement - houses , a kind of diversion quite CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . 27.
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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. model tenement - houses , a kind of diversion quite as satisfactory as that of spreading ban- quets , or sailing yachts , or speeding horses . But the moral welfare of these ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. model tenement - houses , a kind of diversion quite as satisfactory as that of spreading ban- quets , or sailing yachts , or speeding horses . But the moral welfare of these ...
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... kind of fuel which may be applied by the chaldron . It will be done only when the motive force , that is to say , when the will or spirit of the creature , is brought to its greatest strength by its own proper fuel , namely by the ...
... kind of fuel which may be applied by the chaldron . It will be done only when the motive force , that is to say , when the will or spirit of the creature , is brought to its greatest strength by its own proper fuel , namely by the ...
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... . Small manufac- turers would have to take pay from mammoths of their own kind or be ruined . Then would the words of the prophet be fulfilled : " Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field 70 APPLIED CHRISTIANITY .
... . Small manufac- turers would have to take pay from mammoths of their own kind or be ruined . Then would the words of the prophet be fulfilled : " Woe unto them that join house to house , that lay field to field 70 APPLIED CHRISTIANITY .
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Page 70 - 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 315 - ... their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which...
Page 11 - And, uupleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil.
Page 41 - It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit of wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive ; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth ; namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Page 31 - ... is confined within narrow barriers which cannot be passed, and the problem of their elevation is hopeless. As a body they will not rise at all. A few, more energetic or more fortunate than the rest, will from time to time escape, as they do now, from the ranks of their fellows to the higher walks of industrial life, but the great majority will remain substantially where they are. The remuneration of labor as such, skilled or unskilled can never rise much above its present...
Page 315 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation...