BETWEEN ERAS FROM CAPITALISM TO DEMOCRACY BY ALBION W. SMALL A CYCLE OF CONVERSATIONS AND SPEAKERS VICTOR W. BRUDER DEDICATED TO THE FERTILE FELLOWSHIP OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO RATE THE INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE ABOVE THE CLAIMS OF THEIR SPECIAL KIND. "The main thread of the story is the evolution of an ascending scale of wants in people's minds." "Action, and happiness in action, and richer life for everybody as the result of action, were the literal terms of his theology." THE CRISIS. CHAPTER III "It would surrender the fundamental principle that every business must be run by its owners, not by outsiders." "Mrs. Kissinger subscribed in a passive way to the formal creed that it is everybody's duty to be useful; but she knew of no way in which her own daughter could be useful without losing caste." THE PROPHET . CHAPTER V "It followed that if more churches could shed their religious trappings and adopt an essentially religious policy toward the needs of everyday people, they would presently be alive with the very masses that now stand aloof." THE PHILANTHROPIST CHAPTER VI "No one remarked that prevention before the accident, or quick action afterwards, would have been worth more than the cure likely to be effected at this late day.' THE SAFE AND SANE. CHAPTER VII "The real issue is this:-How do you know that your better judgment hasn't usurped more authority than it is entitled to as a dictator to men of poorer judgment?" THE INSURGENT CHAPTER VIII "The ground plan of a democracy is that all shares in the profits of the cooperation shall be paid for in work, and that no one shall have any rights that he does not earn." THE UNCONVINCED CHAPTER IX "But what's the use? The only difference between me and the rest of the Company is that they don't believe a word of these things, while I subscribe to them in the abstract but don't believe they are available." |