The Slavery of Our TimesDodd, Mead, 1900 - 186 pages |
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Page xvi
... present system , he points out that the establish- ment of a Socialist State would involve the enforcement of a fresh form of slavery - direct compulsion to labour . And if he is not at one with the Socialists , neither is he at one ...
... present system , he points out that the establish- ment of a Socialist State would involve the enforcement of a fresh form of slavery - direct compulsion to labour . And if he is not at one with the Socialists , neither is he at one ...
Page xvii
... present work by a direct and explicit appeal to conscien- tious people not voluntarily to pay taxes to governments which spend the money on organ- ising violence and murder . This view of the duty of individuals towards governments has ...
... present work by a direct and explicit appeal to conscien- tious people not voluntarily to pay taxes to governments which spend the money on organ- ising violence and murder . This view of the duty of individuals towards governments has ...
Page xxii
... present work , however , he is not in- terpreting the Gospels , but is dealing with present problems on the plane of thought of the jurists and the economists . And whatever may be the best method of undermining the authority of the ...
... present work , however , he is not in- terpreting the Gospels , but is dealing with present problems on the plane of thought of the jurists and the economists . And whatever may be the best method of undermining the authority of the ...
Page xxv
... present existing and diffused among us , I now offer the reader new considerations , leading to the same replies as before . I think these considerations may be of use to people who are honestly trying to elucidate their posi- tion in ...
... present existing and diffused among us , I now offer the reader new considerations , leading to the same replies as before . I think these considerations may be of use to people who are honestly trying to elucidate their posi- tion in ...
Page 48
... present . And , therefore , discussing the im- provement of the workers ' position , the men of science belonging to the well - to - do classes al- ways have in view only such improvements as will not do away with the system of factory ...
... present . And , therefore , discussing the im- provement of the workers ' position , the men of science belonging to the well - to - do classes al- ways have in view only such improvements as will not do away with the system of factory ...
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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?