Christ and LabourStudent Christian Movement, 1924 - 183 páginas |
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... capitalists were everywhere present making fortunes out of the oppression of the common people . There was immense wealth ; there was unbounded luxury ; but the truth all the while was this , that the countryside had become depleted in ...
... capitalists were everywhere present making fortunes out of the oppression of the common people . There was immense wealth ; there was unbounded luxury ; but the truth all the while was this , that the countryside had become depleted in ...
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... was no longer in the hands of sturdy yeomen . It had passed to rapacious capitalists who evicted the old peasantry , and were engaged in exploiting their huge estates - their latifundia - by means of 22 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
... was no longer in the hands of sturdy yeomen . It had passed to rapacious capitalists who evicted the old peasantry , and were engaged in exploiting their huge estates - their latifundia - by means of 22 CHRIST AND LABOUR.
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... capitalism on a large scale became practical for the first time in the West . The opportunity was seized by greedy adventurers , and the noblest families in Rome succumbed to the temptation of getting rich quickly . This undermining of ...
... capitalism on a large scale became practical for the first time in the West . The opportunity was seized by greedy adventurers , and the noblest families in Rome succumbed to the temptation of getting rich quickly . This undermining of ...
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... capitalist system was probably never estab- lished in the same degree as under the Roman Empire in the West . We have now collected , for instance , a considerable amount of detailed know- ledge about the Empire of Asoka in India . We ...
... capitalist system was probably never estab- lished in the same degree as under the Roman Empire in the West . We have now collected , for instance , a considerable amount of detailed know- ledge about the Empire of Asoka in India . We ...
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... capitalism in land and made it difficult also in trade . One of the central and distinctive marks of human history seems to be that the East has always been engrossed in religion . Religion , whether in Palestine , Persia , India , or ...
... capitalism in land and made it difficult also in trade . One of the central and distinctive marks of human history seems to be that the East has always been engrossed in religion . Religion , whether in Palestine , Persia , India , or ...
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