King Mammon and the Heir ApparentArena Publishing Company, 1896 - 446 pages |
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... ownership . Much of the land . is not used , being held for speculative purposes ; but , so far as the moneyless citizen is concerned , it affords no opportunity , for he must usually give up in interest or rent all the surplus of his ...
... ownership . Much of the land . is not used , being held for speculative purposes ; but , so far as the moneyless citizen is concerned , it affords no opportunity , for he must usually give up in interest or rent all the surplus of his ...
Page 70
... ownership existed in society for centuries , but it is steadily giving way to better family conditions . The extreme power and tyranny of wealth , and the ex- treme degradation of poverty , have always been a feature in the history of ...
... ownership existed in society for centuries , but it is steadily giving way to better family conditions . The extreme power and tyranny of wealth , and the ex- treme degradation of poverty , have always been a feature in the history of ...
Page 79
... ownership was considered an absolute right fifty years ago . In the progress of the anti - slavery agita- tion , people who had no direct interest in the maintenance of slavery , at first regarded the abolitionist as a harmless fanatic ...
... ownership was considered an absolute right fifty years ago . In the progress of the anti - slavery agita- tion , people who had no direct interest in the maintenance of slavery , at first regarded the abolitionist as a harmless fanatic ...
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... ownership , and what is essentially the accumulation of public effort should go back to public control at the ex- piration of every lifetime . Accordingly the privilege of making wills should be abolished , 114 KING MAMMON .
... ownership , and what is essentially the accumulation of public effort should go back to public control at the ex- piration of every lifetime . Accordingly the privilege of making wills should be abolished , 114 KING MAMMON .
Page 115
... ownership - in this country to the United States government . Every large fortune in the nation , like those accumulated by Gould , Vanderbilt , Rockefeller , or Astor , is made indirectly by minute con- tributions from the life ...
... ownership - in this country to the United States government . Every large fortune in the nation , like those accumulated by Gould , Vanderbilt , Rockefeller , or Astor , is made indirectly by minute con- tributions from the life ...
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Page 367 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 303 - England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the...
Page 323 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
Page 119 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
Page 323 - 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 52 - I may, however, anticipate future conclusions, so far as to state that in a community regulated only by laws of demand and supply, but protected from open violence, the persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the...
Page 313 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst, pigeon of the flock...
Page 144 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Page 429 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Page 451 - Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.