The Slavery of Our TimesDodd, Mead, 1900 - 186 pages |
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Page ix
... matter would , no doubt , burst out in some fresh form . That is , in fact , pretty much what has happened . Weary of strife and private feuds , people consented to ANN ER AT A 5 m leave to governments the ix Introduction WHAT IS SLAVERY?
... matter would , no doubt , burst out in some fresh form . That is , in fact , pretty much what has happened . Weary of strife and private feuds , people consented to ANN ER AT A 5 m leave to governments the ix Introduction WHAT IS SLAVERY?
Page xi
... matter , and realise that organised violence exists , claiming our approval , and that it is possible to withhold that approval . As for abolishing violence , it is for us not a question of yes or no , but it is a question of more or ...
... matter , and realise that organised violence exists , claiming our approval , and that it is possible to withhold that approval . As for abolishing violence , it is for us not a question of yes or no , but it is a question of more or ...
Page xii
... matter , and not excuse a vicious system in order to shelter ourselves . When we have understood the matter , let us not fear to speak out ; and when we have confessed our views , let us try to bring our lives more and more in harmony ...
... matter , and not excuse a vicious system in order to shelter ourselves . When we have understood the matter , let us not fear to speak out ; and when we have confessed our views , let us try to bring our lives more and more in harmony ...
Page xiii
... matter ! How greatly brewers , distillers , and dealers have gained in respectability by the fact that their occupations were legal , if not right . And how evident it is becoming that it is not by laws Heat's where that such evils as ...
... matter ! How greatly brewers , distillers , and dealers have gained in respectability by the fact that their occupations were legal , if not right . And how evident it is becoming that it is not by laws Heat's where that such evils as ...
Page xiv
... matters ; and , no doubt , Tolstoy's views will be again and again exploited by unworthy disciples . But is humanity to stagnate because what is evil is so easily grafted on what is good ? To think and to move may be dangerous , but to ...
... matters ; and , no doubt , Tolstoy's views will be again and again exploited by unworthy disciples . But is humanity to stagnate because what is evil is so easily grafted on what is good ? To think and to move may be dangerous , but to ...
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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?