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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CONTRADICTIONS. " I see no reason why progress in the moral world should be so slow, or the return for moral efforts so pitifully small. If the Church would address her efforts, not in persuading men to adopt a certain set of opinions, but to adopt certain habits of life, she would find the work of conversion easy and rapid."?W. H. H. Murray. 16. I quote the above words not in approval but as a warning. As we shall see in other chapters, and have already partly seen, there is ample reason why " progress in the moral world is so slow." What, however, we are here concerned with is the assumption that habits of life are independent of, and can be divorced from opinions. This is a great, a very grave blunder. That our Freewill may properly co-operate with the Universal Order, it is, precisely, imperatively necessary that it be governed, moved by correct opinions, by right reason. When a gardener takes charge of a young plant, the first thing he considers is the atmospheric conditions which its nature demands: whether it can stand the open air or must be placed inside a hot-house, whether it does or does not crave sunshine; we may even imagine plants that thrive by getting sunshine through a red or a blue glass. Our intellect acts as the atmospheric medium to morality. True, no development of intellect makes a man moral. Morality has to do with appetites, passions, feelings, but it makes all the difference in the world, whether the facts of our environment act on our feelings through an intellect that interprets them correctly or falsely. Many a warm-hearted man has had his benevolence stifled by looking on misery through Malthusian spectacles?being confused by the sophistries of Mai thus. Man has not yet, as Huxley says, "discovered his true place in Nat...

In the late 19th century, after the economic and social upheaval of the Civil War was finally begin to settle down, many political thinkers saw such troubled times coming again, and believed that socialism was the way to head it off. In this 1884 work, a lost classic of American Socialism, LAURENCE GRONLUND (1846-1899), American lawyer, writer, and worker for the Socialist Labor Part, expounds on his concepts for how socialism might work in the New World. Here he discusses. . capital: mainly accumulated fleecings . interest: a fair division of the spoils . social anarchy . capitalists monopolize all wealth and social benefits . speculative vampires . a rhythmical swing from individualism to social co-operation . the commonwealth will insure freedom . why collectivism is not communism . a collectivist state in outline . democracy means administration by the competent . an end to drudgery . morals in the co-operative commonwealth . labor organizations are the skeletons of the new order . and much more.

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Title: C a ira or Danton in the French Revolution. A study.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORICAL WORKS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This collection contains works in both French and English highlighting the history of the Girondists and the Jacobins, the storming of the Bastille, the Napoleonic Wars, restorations of the monarchy, the spread of secularism, and the role of women. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Gronlund, Laurence; Danton, Georges Jacques; 1888. vi, 261 p.; 8 . 9226.bbb.6.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I THE TRUST AND DEMOCRACY THE PLOT IN THE DRAMA OF HISTORY "We are moving on in a grand evolution of a social and industrial order out of a semi-barbarian chaos." ? The Social Horizon. There is a phenomenon, first appearing in America, which in our generation has carried economic evolution to its highest pitch, and that is the Trust?than which no greater sign of coming events was ever vouchsafed to man. We all know what a trust in its general features is?it means, that the different establishments in a given line of business combine to stop competition between themselves and thus regulate production?that is, the supply. Now note the tremendous importance of this appar ently so simple matter. It is an admission by our captains of industry, that competition has now become highly injurious and is growing more and more unprofitable to their interests; it is a further admission, that competition involves planless production, and that plan- lessness here, as elsewhere, means waste and inefficiency. This admission it is, that has originated the Trust. But competition is the principle hitherto ruling in our present industrial system, and the Trust, then, is a complete break with and abandonment of that principle, and the substitution for it of its very opposite: combination or cooperation. It is this significant admission by business men of all classes, that competition is henceforth ruinous to them?however beneficent it may have proven in the past?that makes the attempts to crush the Trust entirely hopeless; that which has become the natural course for business and production is sure to break a path for itself through all obstructions. It is just as foolish in legislators to try to suppress the Trust as it would be for them to legislate against the winds or t...

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I THE TRUST AND DEMOCRACY THE PLOT IN THE DRAMA OF HISTORY "We are moving on in a grand evolution of a social and industrial order out of a semi-barbarian chaos." ? The Social Horizon. There is a phenomenon, first appearing in America, which in our generation has carried economic evolution to its highest pitch, and that is the Trust?than which no greater sign of coming events was ever vouchsafed to man. We all know what a trust in its general features is?it means, that the different establishments in a given line of business combine to stop competition between themselves and thus regulate production?that is, the supply. Now note the tremendous importance of this appar ently so simple matter. It is an admission by our captains of industry, that competition has now become highly injurious and is growing more and more unprofitable to their interests; it is a further admission, that competition involves planless production, and that plan- lessness here, as elsewhere, means waste and inefficiency. This admission it is, that has originated the Trust. But competition is the principle hitherto ruling in our present industrial system, and the Trust, then, is a complete break with and abandonment of that principle, and the substitution for it of its very opposite: combination or cooperation. It is this significant admission by business men of all classes, that competition is henceforth ruinous to them?however beneficent it may have proven in the past?that makes the attempts to crush the Trust entirely hopeless; that which has become the natural course for business and production is sure to break a path for itself through all obstructions. It is just as foolish in legislators to try to suppress the Trust as it would be for them to legislate against the winds or t...

Written in the wake of the waves of economic and social upheaval in the post Civil War period, this 1898 work, a lost classic of American Socialism, is a cry for a nationwide plan to even out the bumpy ride America had been on, and that-the author predicted accurately-it would see again. Here, LAURENCE GRONLUND (1846-1899), American lawyer, writer, and worker for the Socialist Labor Party, explains why "industrial democracy," "a most noble ideal," is "inevitable," and explores its many potential facets, some of which will sound familiar to readers today: . state aids to employed labor . state help to unemployed labor . municipal enterprises under state control . socialization of mines and liquor traffic . a national telegraph . national banks . national controls of fares and freight rates . and more.