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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. APPLIED CHRISTIANITY . CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . THE Christian economists of America are confronting a great problem . The wealth of the country is increasing at a prodigious rate ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. APPLIED CHRISTIANITY . CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . THE Christian economists of America are confronting a great problem . The wealth of the country is increasing at a prodigious rate ...
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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. and , after a little , a house with a chimney , and a hoe , and a plow , and by and by he wanted a book to read ; and when he had got all this property he was a wealthy man compared ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. and , after a little , a house with a chimney , and a hoe , and a plow , and by and by he wanted a book to read ; and when he had got all this property he was a wealthy man compared ...
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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. er's relative position in society is certainly lower than formerly . Great as the inequality now is , Professor Cairnes says that under the present industrial system it is sure to ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. er's relative position in society is certainly lower than formerly . Great as the inequality now is , Professor Cairnes says that under the present industrial system it is sure to ...
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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. telegraphs , and administer them for the com- mon good . They are falling , in far too large a degree , into the hands of men who use them for the spoiling of our commerce and the cor ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. telegraphs , and administer them for the com- mon good . They are falling , in far too large a degree , into the hands of men who use them for the spoiling of our commerce and the cor ...
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Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. nopolies are laid low , the greatest obstructions to a free ... morality calls on all its professors to en- force this obligation on the state . Beyond this they cannot go far in this ...
Moral Aspects of Social Questions Washington Gladden. nopolies are laid low , the greatest obstructions to a free ... morality calls on all its professors to en- force this obligation on the state . Beyond this they cannot go far in this ...
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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...