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... rich patricians give up all they possessed to the poor plebeians ; who shouted such violent demagoguery as that no man of wealth , when dead , could see the Gods face to face in the Elysian Fields ; who held that the goods of all should ...
... rich patricians give up all they possessed to the poor plebeians ; who shouted such violent demagoguery as that no man of wealth , when dead , could see the Gods face to face in the Elysian Fields ; who held that the goods of all should ...
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... rich were embarrassed , and the poor were often compulsorily idle , and on the brink of famine . " Horace Greeley had to work on his father's farm almost from the time he could walk and then , he CAUSES OF GREELEY'S SOCIALISM . 31.
... rich were embarrassed , and the poor were often compulsorily idle , and on the brink of famine . " Horace Greeley had to work on his father's farm almost from the time he could walk and then , he CAUSES OF GREELEY'S SOCIALISM . 31.
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... rich man's orchards , and who feels that the fuel which would warm his benumbed limbs is moldering to dust in the adjacent wood , unused and unwanted , this is the impossible task ; yet who shall be deemed educated whose heart festers ...
... rich man's orchards , and who feels that the fuel which would warm his benumbed limbs is moldering to dust in the adjacent wood , unused and unwanted , this is the impossible task ; yet who shall be deemed educated whose heart festers ...
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... rich , but sinks the great mass , even of the free , into indolence , depravity , and misery . It prevents the accumu- lation of wealth . It renders land a drug . For these and other reasons , I am among those who labor and hope for the ...
... rich , but sinks the great mass , even of the free , into indolence , depravity , and misery . It prevents the accumu- lation of wealth . It renders land a drug . For these and other reasons , I am among those who labor and hope for the ...
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... of finance robs labor , gorges capital , makes the rich richer , and the poor poorer , and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capital . " CHAPTER III . AMERICAN SOCIALISM ANTEDATES GREELEY . H ORACE CAUSES OF GREELEY'S SOCIALISM . 57.
... of finance robs labor , gorges capital , makes the rich richer , and the poor poorer , and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capital . " CHAPTER III . AMERICAN SOCIALISM ANTEDATES GREELEY . H ORACE CAUSES OF GREELEY'S SOCIALISM . 57.
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Page 92 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing, any slave, I would do it ; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 91 - If there be in it statements or assumptions of fact which I may know to be erroneous, I do not now and here controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right. " As to the policy I ' seem to be pursuing,' as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.
Page 25 - 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 59 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Page 92 - I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union.
Page 21 - The time Is fast coming when, In the natural course of social evolution, this system, through the destructive action of its failures and crises on the one hand, and the constructive tendencies of Its trusts and other capitalistic combinations on the other hand, shall have worked out Its own downfall.
Page 228 - And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Page 318 - A struggle is going on in all the nations of the civilized world, between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the Capitalist and the Laborer, which grows in intensity from year to year...
Page 92 - Union ; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors ; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal...
Page 82 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.