The Things that are Caesar's: A Defence of Wealth1920 - 153 páginas |
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Página 138 - In a country of unbounded liberty, they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality, they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more evenly divided than anywhere else, they rend the air shouting agrarian doctrines. In a country where wages of labor are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer he is but an oppressed slave.
Página 57 - ... scientific age. Formerly, articles were manufactured at the domestic hearth, or in small shops which formed part of the household. The master and his apprentices worked side by side, the latter living with the master, and therefore subject to the same conditions. When these apprentices rose to be masters, there was little or no change in their mode of life, and they, in turn, educated succeeding apprentices in the same routine.
Página 138 - There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and dry all streams.
Página 32 - To get and to have is the motto not only of the market but of the altar and of the hearth. We are coming to measure man — man with his heart and mind and soul — in terms of mere acquisition and possessions. A waning Christianity and a waxing mammonism are the twin spectres of our age.
Página 60 - The end of property," says lie, "is subsistence, by which end Nature has bounded our pretensions to it. Hence, in a state of nature we cannot assume more than we use, nor hold it longer than we live and are capable of using it. The manner of acquiring property in a state of nature is by occupancy, an act of the body, not of the mind, which last would give a title to property too precarious and disputable. In transferring property...
Página 57 - To-day the world obtains commodities of excellent quality at prices which even the preceding generation would have deemed incredible. In the commercial world similar causes have produced similar results, and the race is benefited thereby. The poor enjoy what the rich could not before afford. What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life. The laborer has now more comforts...
Página 138 - There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and pernicious influence of accumulated wealth. They cry out loudly against all banks and corporations and all means by which small capitalists become united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions.
Página 74 - When we come to the small fraction which the owners or managers of these great capitals are able to apply to their personal use, or to lay up for such use, the first thing that strikes one is that they cannot even carry a carpet bag on their long journey to that bourne from which no traveler returns.
Página 60 - ... law; and the moment a fragment of the people set up rights as inherent in them and not founded upon the public good, plain absurdities follow; for laws of property are like all other laws, to be changed when the...
Página 129 - ... more than he is concerned with the impression which he makes upon other persons. He does not keep one eye upon the gods any more than he does upon his fellows. His one passion is the artist passion for perfection. So far as his prayer is articulate, he prays with Plato : " O Jove, give us that which is good for us, whether we pray for it or not; and withhold that which is evil, even though we pray for it.