The Menace of Privilege: A Study of the Dangers to the Republic from the Existence of a Favored ClassMacmillan, 1905 - 421 páginas |
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... less than our chief city now contains ? The answer is that something is rampant now that existed only in rudimentary form then . That something is Privilege . This volume strives to show in a brief , suggestive way how privileges ...
... less than our chief city now contains ? The answer is that something is rampant now that existed only in rudimentary form then . That something is Privilege . This volume strives to show in a brief , suggestive way how privileges ...
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... less than $ 350,000 , one of the largest fortunes acquired in Boston up to that date . John 1 Franklin's Writings , Bigelow Edition , Vol . VIII , p . 172 . Hancock was then twenty - seven . Like his uncle The Land of Inequality 3.
... less than $ 350,000 , one of the largest fortunes acquired in Boston up to that date . John 1 Franklin's Writings , Bigelow Edition , Vol . VIII , p . 172 . Hancock was then twenty - seven . Like his uncle The Land of Inequality 3.
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... less than 250,000 persons . ' Nor did Mr. Shearman stop there . He ventured to predict that were the concentrating move- ment to continue at the same rate , " within thirty years .. the United States of America will be substantially ...
... less than 250,000 persons . ' Nor did Mr. Shearman stop there . He ventured to predict that were the concentrating move- ment to continue at the same rate , " within thirty years .. the United States of America will be substantially ...
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... less unequal dis- tribution of the vast wealth generally produced , when some do not find it possible to pile up huge , mocking pri- vate fortunes , and when the general body of the citizens find it easier to get a living commensurate ...
... less unequal dis- tribution of the vast wealth generally produced , when some do not find it possible to pile up huge , mocking pri- vate fortunes , and when the general body of the citizens find it easier to get a living commensurate ...
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... less dependence those others who must use it . Legally , however , in many parts of the world men have been , and in some parts of the world yet are , enslaved and are called " property . " Simi- larly , in most of the civilized world ...
... less dependence those others who must use it . Legally , however , in many parts of the world men have been , and in some parts of the world yet are , enslaved and are called " property . " Simi- larly , in most of the civilized world ...
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Página 348 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 285 - And if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Página 288 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 236 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 356 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Página 348 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Página 285 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Página 63 - The people have a saying, that God Almighty is himself a mechanic, the greatest in the universe; and he is respected and admired more for the variety, ingenuity, and utility of his handiworks, than for the antiquity of his family.
Página 294 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance. in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can...
Página 315 - Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.