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... taken as examples . The shrewdest foreign observers who have ever visited us , like Herbert Spencer , have noted what Lowell called the " divine patience of my fellow- countrymen under abuses . " This temper coupled with a 26 THE SOCIAL ...
... taken as examples . The shrewdest foreign observers who have ever visited us , like Herbert Spencer , have noted what Lowell called the " divine patience of my fellow- countrymen under abuses . " This temper coupled with a 26 THE SOCIAL ...
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... taken preliminary steps to protect themselves against further disturbances by calling a mass meeting of master builders and of employers in affiliated trades . It is openly an- nounced that the purpose of the meeting is to declare war ...
... taken preliminary steps to protect themselves against further disturbances by calling a mass meeting of master builders and of employers in affiliated trades . It is openly an- nounced that the purpose of the meeting is to declare war ...
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... taken on an international character ) is so inex- orable that they have neither time nor strength for projects that are not quite business , and the results of which are at best uncertain . The conduct of the employers in the recent ...
... taken on an international character ) is so inex- orable that they have neither time nor strength for projects that are not quite business , and the results of which are at best uncertain . The conduct of the employers in the recent ...
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... taken possession of it . Hat in hand , they have begged with such importunity that the law - making power , federal , state , and municipal , seems to have been looked upon as a private pre- serve . Yet these who discovered paternalism ...
... taken possession of it . Hat in hand , they have begged with such importunity that the law - making power , federal , state , and municipal , seems to have been looked upon as a private pre- serve . Yet these who discovered paternalism ...
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... improvement among the workingmen had been so great that in the fourth edition of this volume the author states frankly how hopeful a change has taken place . kind of organization which capital on the one side and POLITICS AND BUSINESS 51.
... improvement among the workingmen had been so great that in the fourth edition of this volume the author states frankly how hopeful a change has taken place . kind of organization which capital on the one side and POLITICS AND BUSINESS 51.
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Page 220 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence— the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Page 160 - Napoleon. As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick ; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.
Page 132 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 165 - If, therefore, the choice were to be made between Communism with all its chances, and the present state of society with all its sufferings and injustices; if the institution of private property...
Page 73 - I thank God there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have them these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 73 - I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best of government. God keep us from both...
Page 240 - May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most effectually for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?
Page 165 - The social problem of the future we considered to be, how to unite the greatest individual liberty of action, with a common ownership in the raw material of the globe, and an equal participation of all in the benefits of combined labour.
Page 210 - It would be difficult to think of another field of social or legal reform in which the United States is so far behind other nations. "The most depressing feature of the situation lies in the fact that the very principles involved in this gradual evolution — from the limited liability of employers to that of the compulsory indemnification by them of practically all injured employees — are as yet not even comprehended in the United States.
Page 167 - The momentous seriousness of the present state of things just now fills every mind with painful apprehension; wise men discuss it ; practical men propose schemes ; popular meetings, legislatures, and sovereign princes, all are occupied with it — and there is nothing which has a deeper hold on public attention.