The Real Democracy: (first Essays of the Rota Club)Longmans, Green, 1913 - 276 páginas |
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Página 142 - Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire...
Página 206 - Forsooth, brothers, fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell : fellowship is life, and lack of fellowship is death : and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them...
Página 98 - The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in land, and of the consequent individual appropriation, in the form of rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites. " The Society, further, works for the transfer to the community of the administration of such industrial capital as can conveniently be managed socially.
Página 6 - ... the diffusion, instead of the concentration of wealth - to encourage the subdivision of the large masses, instead of striving to keep them together; the principle of individual property would have been found to have no necessary connexion with the physical and social evils which almost all Socialist writers assume to be inseparable from it.
Página 19 - Speaker, some of these are ashamed of their right names ; they have a vizard to hide the brand made by that good law in the last Parliament of King James ; they shelter themselves under the name of a Corporation ; they make by-laws which serve their turns to squeeze us and fill their purses.
Página 210 - Therefore, to control the production of wealth is to control human life itself. To refuse man the opportunity for the production of wealth is to refuse him the opportunity for life; and, in general, the way in which the production of wealth is by law permitted is the only way in which the citizens can legally exist. Wealth can only be produced by the application of human energy, mental and physical, to the forces of nature around us, and to the material which those forces inform. This human energy...
Página 114 - ... equitable method of disposing of it. There is no means of getting rid of economic rent. So long as the fertility of land varies from acre to acre, and the number of persons passing by a shop window per hour varies from street to street, with the result that two farmers or two shopkeepers of exactly equal intelligence and industry will reap unequal returns from their year's work, so long will it be equitable to take from the richer farmer or shopkeeper the excess over his fellow's gain which he...
Página 50 - But in all cases it must be remembered that a political combination of the lower classes, as such and for their own objects, is an evil of the first magnitude ; that a permanent combination of them would make them (now that so many of them have the suffrage) supreme in the country; and that their supremacy, in the state they now are, means the supremacy of ignorance over instruction and of numbers over knowledge.
Página 258 - I want/ because 'I want' must lead to the question, 'Who am I?' and so to Pity and to Justice. He only says 'want/ 'Want Europe/ if he's Napoleon; 'want wives/ if he's Bluebeard; 'want Botticelli/ if he's Pierpont Morgan.
Página 194 - But one of the strangest of vulgar ideas is that a very wide suffrage could or would promote progress, new ideas, new discoveries and inventions, new arts of life. Such a suffrage is commonly associated with Radicalism ; and no doubt amid its most certain effects would be the extensive destruction of existing institutions ; but the chances are that, in the long run, it would produce a mischievous form of Conservatism...