King Mammon and the Heir ApparentArena Publishing Company, 1896 - 446페이지 |
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... descendant of a wealthy ancestor , or does any other survivor , possess any natural or just claim to the property of the decedent to the ex- clusion of his fellow - creatures ? Society has at various times in different countries granted ...
... descendant of a wealthy ancestor , or does any other survivor , possess any natural or just claim to the property of the decedent to the ex- clusion of his fellow - creatures ? Society has at various times in different countries granted ...
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... descendants . The principle is slightly recognized in the present , as it has been very distinctly in the past , that the power of mak- ing bequests is not an absolute right that belongs to the individual , but is merely a privilege ...
... descendants . The principle is slightly recognized in the present , as it has been very distinctly in the past , that the power of mak- ing bequests is not an absolute right that belongs to the individual , but is merely a privilege ...
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... appear entirely just to men of the present will seem vicious , cruel , and barbar- ous to their descendants ? The candid thinker will be forced to admit , after a care- ful consideration of history , that in the past men 104 KING MAMMON .
... appear entirely just to men of the present will seem vicious , cruel , and barbar- ous to their descendants ? The candid thinker will be forced to admit , after a care- ful consideration of history , that in the past men 104 KING MAMMON .
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... descendants natural successors ; the modern laws make the ancestor a dictator beyond the grave . Efforts have been made to compromise or balance these conflicting claims , but in all of the laws heretofore enacted , the doctrine has ...
... descendants natural successors ; the modern laws make the ancestor a dictator beyond the grave . Efforts have been made to compromise or balance these conflicting claims , but in all of the laws heretofore enacted , the doctrine has ...
113 페이지
... descendants retain pos- session of them as though equitable or inequitable relations of the present exist between the men of the past , dead and mouldering in their graves , and not between the sentient human beings of an actual earth ...
... descendants retain pos- session of them as though equitable or inequitable relations of the present exist between the men of the past , dead and mouldering in their graves , and not between the sentient human beings of an actual earth ...
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absolute accumulated anarchism anarchist ancestors ancient appears aristocracy become bequeath bequest century civilization claim cocoanuts competition condition consanguinity conservatism death descendants desires doctrine duty early earth Edward Bellamy effort Elam equal rights equitable established evil existence father feudal system fortune future gens heirs Herbert Spencer heredity Hindus human ideas idle individual inhabitants inheritance injustice Iroquois Japheths justice justly King labor land laws live Louis Blanc Mammon man's marriage ment merely millions minds modern moral nation natural rights occupancy opportunities organization owner parent patriotism perpetual person political poor portion possession present primogeniture principles private ownership privilege production progress race real nature result rich right of property savage sentiment slavery slaves social institutions Social Statics socialistic society succession successors supposed testator theory things thought thousand tion tribes tyranny United unjust wealth wrong
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367 페이지 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
303 페이지 - England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the...
323 페이지 - There is no wealth but life — -life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings...
119 페이지 - Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself, in all cases, as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave, is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.
323 페이지 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
52 페이지 - I may, however, anticipate future conclusions, so far as to state that in a community regulated only by laws of demand and supply, but protected from open violence, the persons who become rich are, generally speaking, industrious, resolute, proud, covetous, prompt, methodical, sensible, unimaginative, insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful, the dull, the imaginative, the sensitive, the...
313 페이지 - IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst, pigeon of the flock...
144 페이지 - sacredness of property " is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
429 페이지 - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
451 페이지 - Then I say, the earth belongs to each of these generations during its course, fully and in its own right. The second generation receives it clear of the debts and incumbrances of the first, the third of the second, and so on. For if the first could charge it with a debt, then the earth would belong to the dead and not to the living generation. Then, no generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.