The Spirit of DemocracyHoughton, Mifflin, 1910 - 215 páginas |
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Abraham Lincoln absolutely America authority believe Bible capital capitalists carried Charles Lamb Charlotte Brontë child Christian Church conception Constitution coöperation corporation cracy demo democratic spirit despotism divine doctrine duty Edward Bernstein elect Encyclopædia Britannica enforce enterprise evil experience factory faith father French Revolution fundamental give hands Hebrew human husband ideal individual industrial democracy interests Jesus Christ justice labor land liberty lives LYMAN ABBOTT marriage means ment modern mother munity nation nature obedience organization owners ownership pagan parents person Political Socialism polygamy protection public school Puritan question railways readers reform religion ROCKTON Roman Roman Catholic Church Rome says self-governing community Silas Marner Socialist society suffrage taught teach teachers thing Thou shalt tion to-day tool-owners tools and implements truth universal suffrage wealth wife woman women workingmen
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Página 17 - 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.
Página 49 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 154 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
Página 196 - Let every American, every lover of liberty, every wellwisher to his posterity swear by the blood of the Revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others.
Página 119 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed,. that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Página 49 - She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth a field, and buyeth it : with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
Página 177 - When the white man governs himself, that is self-government ; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that " all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
Página 41 - Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To | please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them— these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.
Página 45 - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other...
Página 204 - ... finest fabrics of the nascent organism. And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body ; pinching up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due...