The Slavery of Our TimesDodd, Mead, 1900 - 186 pages |
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... of their bad room , we at once send there an in- spector , who receives a good salary , and we forbid people to work more than twelve hours , leaving the workmen ( who are thus deprived of one 18 The Slavery of Our Times.
... of their bad room , we at once send there an in- spector , who receives a good salary , and we forbid people to work more than twelve hours , leaving the workmen ( who are thus deprived of one 18 The Slavery of Our Times.
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graf Leo Tolstoy. leaving the workmen ( who are thus deprived of one - third of their earnings ) to feed them- selves as best they can ; and we compel the railway company to erect a large and con- venient room for the workmen . Then with ...
graf Leo Tolstoy. leaving the workmen ( who are thus deprived of one - third of their earnings ) to feed them- selves as best they can ; and we compel the railway company to erect a large and con- venient room for the workmen . Then with ...
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... forced to it by being deprived of their imple- ments of production , but , on the contrary , they have ( for the most part against the wish of the elder members of their families ) left the homes where 35 The Factory System.
... forced to it by being deprived of their imple- ments of production , but , on the contrary , they have ( for the most part against the wish of the elder members of their families ) left the homes where 35 The Factory System.
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... deprived of the natural conditions of life in touch with nature , is de- prived of freedom , is compelled to compulsory and monotonous toil at another man's will . And , therefore , the reply to the questions , why factory and town ...
... deprived of the natural conditions of life in touch with nature , is de- prived of freedom , is compelled to compulsory and monotonous toil at another man's will . And , therefore , the reply to the questions , why factory and town ...
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... deprive the well - to - do classes of their advan- tages . As well - disposed owners then spoke of " paternal authority , " and , like Gógol , * advised * N . V. Gógol ( 1809-1852 ) , the author of the famous play The Inspector and the ...
... deprive the well - to - do classes of their advan- tages . As well - disposed owners then spoke of " paternal authority , " and , like Gógol , * advised * N . V. Gógol ( 1809-1852 ) , the author of the famous play The Inspector and the ...
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Page xix - I do not hesitate to say, that those who call themselves Abolitionists should at once effectually withdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts and not wait till they constitute a majority of one, before they suffer the right to prevail through them. I think that it is enough if they have God on their side, without waiting for that other one. Moreover, any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
Page xx - If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, " But what shall I do ? " my answer is, " If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.
Page xxiii - And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
Page xxx - Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies, and yet remain in one sense, and the best sense, free. But to smother their souls within them, to blight and hew into rotting pollards the suckling branches of their human intelligence, to make the flesh and skin, which, after the worm's work on it, is to see God, into leathern thongs to yoke machinery with— this it is to be slave-masters indeed; and there might be more freedom in England, though her feudal...
Page xxx - It is verily this degradation of the operative into a machine, which, more than any other evil of the times, is leading the mass of the nations everywhere into vain, incoherent, destructive struggling for a freedom of which they cannot explain the nature to themselves.
Page xxix - Give to every man that asketh of' thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
Page xxix - He answered and said unto them, "When it is evening ye say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.' And in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today; for the sky is red and lowering.' O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Page xxxi - These do much, and have done much in all ages; but the foundations of society were never yet shaken as they are at this day. It is not that men are ill-fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure.
Page xix - It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
Page xx - If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the taxgatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?