Pamphlets: Sociology, Volume 2

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Page 1 - Let him that stole, steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 5 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Page 12 - To promote frequent and reverent worship in the Holy Communion, and a better observance of the teaching of the Church of England as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer. III. — To promote the study of Social and Political Questions in the light of the Incarnation.
Page 17 - 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.
Page 17 - Socialists. ft therefore aims at the re-organization of Society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individual and class ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.
Page 15 - ... the beneficent private war which makes one man strive to climb on the shoulders of another, and remain there ; ' 1 or it may loom to us, out of the blood and tears and misery of the strife, as a horrible remnant of the barbarism from which man has half risen since We dined, as a rule, on each other : What matter ? the toughest survived.
Page 6 - ... per cent. of the actual producers of wealth have no home that they can call their own beyond the end of the week; have no bit of soil, or so much as a room, that belongs to them; have nothing of value of any kind, except as much old furniture as will go in a cart; have the precarious...
Page 17 - ... of others will necessarily disappear, and practical equality of opportunity will be maintained by the spontaneous action of economic forces with much less interference with personal liberty than the present system entails.

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