PovertySimpkin, Marshall, 1884 - 208 oldal |
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Acts of Parliament amongst average benefit better building capital capitalist cause cent century civilization co-operation co-operative colonies comfort competition condition criminal calendar desire distribution doubt drink duty earn efforts emigration employers England equal evil existence extirpate poverty factories George GEORGE GORE George's give Government habits HERBERT SPENCER higher houses human improved dwellings income increase individual industry inhabitants Ireland labouring classes land landlord landowner live London machinery manufacture material means Metropolitan Board middle class millions misery moral nation nationalisation nature nature's law navvies necessary owners paid parish Parliament pauperism persons poor Poor Law population present productive power profit progress railways reform remedy rent result rich Saltaire savings Scotland skill social Socialist society Spinners struggle supply and demand tell things thrift tion Titus Salt trade United Kingdom wages wealth
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119. oldal - Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
98. oldal - Though his titles have been acquiesced in by generation after generation, to the landed estates of the Duke of Westminster the poorest child that is born in London today has as much right as his eldest son. Though the sovereign people of the State of New York consent to the landed possessions of the Astors, the puniest infant that comes wailing into the world in the squalidest room of the most miserable tenement house, becomes at that moment seized of an equal right with the millionaires. And it...
53. oldal - They were the leaders of men, these great ones ; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain ; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realization and embodiment, of Thoughts that dwelt in the Great Men sent into the world : the soul of the whole world's history, it may justly be considered, were the history of these.
47. oldal - Poverty deepens as wealth increases, and wages are forced down while productive power grows, because land, which is the source of all wealth and the field of all labor, is monopolized. To extirpate poverty, to make wages what justice commands they should be, the full earnings of the laborer, we must therefore substitute for the individual ownership of land a common ownership.
28. oldal - Come, bright improvement! on the car of time, And rule the spacious world from clime to clime ; Thy handmaid arts shall every wild explore, Trace every wave, and culture every shore.
61. oldal - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
97. oldal - The function of Liberalism in the past was that of putting a limit to the powers of kings. The function of true Liberalism in the future will be that of putting a limit to the powers of Parliaments.
192. oldal - And so to live, that when the sun . Of our existence sinks in night, Memorials sweet of mercies done May 'shrine our names in memory's light ; And the blest seeds we scattered bloom A hundredfold in days to come.
48. oldal - What I, therefore, propose as the simple yet sovereign remedy — which will raise wages, increase the earnings of capital, extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty, give remunerative employment to 'whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals aud taste and intelligence, purify government, and carry civilization to yet nobler heights — is to appropriate rent by taxation.
47. oldal - Why, in spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living?