Christ and LabourGanes & Company, 1922 - 146 páginas |
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... exploit- ing their huge estates - their latifundia - by means of gangs of slaves . This last point , just mentioned , brings us to the most wide - reaching and important of all the labour problems , which the early Church was compelled ...
... exploit- ing their huge estates - their latifundia - by means of gangs of slaves . This last point , just mentioned , brings us to the most wide - reaching and important of all the labour problems , which the early Church was compelled ...
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... exploitation . Just as in Europe our best thinkers are going back to the Monasteries and Guilds , in order to find the true strength and inspiration of the industrial life of " Merrie England " ( as Medieval England is rightly named ) ...
... exploitation . Just as in Europe our best thinkers are going back to the Monasteries and Guilds , in order to find the true strength and inspiration of the industrial life of " Merrie England " ( as Medieval England is rightly named ) ...
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... exploitation which I have recently been investigating . I have not finished my enquiry , and therefore it will not be fair to mention the names of the business firms concerned . But I can guarantee that the instances which I am about ...
... exploitation which I have recently been investigating . I have not finished my enquiry , and therefore it will not be fair to mention the names of the business firms concerned . But I can guarantee that the instances which I am about ...
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... exploit him . This ignorant and illiterate peasant cannot be made immediately clever enough to counteract the unscrupulous formation of " rings " and corners " and " combines , " which keep down the price of labour for the cultivator ...
... exploit him . This ignorant and illiterate peasant cannot be made immediately clever enough to counteract the unscrupulous formation of " rings " and corners " and " combines , " which keep down the price of labour for the cultivator ...
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... the poor and defenceless by the unrestricted use of capital in foreign lands . I have seen its deadly effects . Let me quote some business figures concerning the company whose chief field of exploitation has been Fiji 46 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
... the poor and defenceless by the unrestricted use of capital in foreign lands . I have seen its deadly effects . Let me quote some business figures concerning the company whose chief field of exploitation has been Fiji 46 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
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Página 124 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Página 22 - And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory...
Página 4 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth : and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Página 135 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for -this is the Law and the Prophets.
Página 22 - And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Página 138 - Now learn a parable of the fig tree ; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh : so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Página 125 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Página 84 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Página 4 - Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
Página 137 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.