Historical Progress and Ideal Socialism: An Evening Discourse Delivered to the British Association at Oxford in the Sheldonian Theatre, 13th August 1894A. and C. Black, 1894 - 67 páginas |
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Página 34 - It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts.
Página 34 - Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours : I am willing to give this for that.
Página 59 - ... subject Historical Progress and Ideal Socialism, which was published in the same year. Even after the lapse of a generation some of the sentences have a curiously modern ring: ' Does socialism mean reform; or does it mean revolution? It cannot mean both. Do you propose in the style of a Robespierre to confiscate the land itself, or in the style of a John Bright to reform the land laws? You cannot at the same time wear on the same head the red cap of anarchy and the broad brim of the Quaker, though...
Página 34 - Saul (The first king of Israel) was a man of uncommon stature. Methuselah (He who lived to the greatest age recorded of man) died before his father, t Adam Smith (The author of the Wealth of Nations) says that there ia in man a natural propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another.
Página 60 - But these, as well as all the other passions of human nature, seem proper and are approved of, when the heart of every impartial spectator entirely sympathizes with them, when every indifferent bystander entirely enters into, and goes along with, them.
Página 6 - ... would appear to have returned to the discussion of the ideals of society which moved men's minds at that period of upheaval. Nothing can, however, be more out of place than comparisons which are instituted between society one hundred years ago and at the present time. We have little in common with this past. It may be searched in vain for any clue to the solution of the problems which confront us in the future. The great political revolution which began one hundred years ago, and which has been...