The Coöperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Modern SocialismLee and Shepard, 1884 - 278 pages |
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Page 32 - The seed ye sow, another reaps; The wealth ye find, another keeps; The robes ye weave, another wears; The arms ye forge, another bears.
Page 77 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 34 - It is not to die, or even to die of hunger, that makes a man wretched...
Page 96 - If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man...
Page 19 - The estimation in which different qualities of labour are held comes soon to be adjusted in the market with sufficient precision for all practical purposes, and depends much on the comparative skill of the labourer and intensity of the labour performed.
Page 192 - It is the judges (as we have seen) that make the common law. Do you know how they make it? Just as a man makes laws for his dog. When your dog does anything you want to break him of, you wait till he does it, and then beat him for it. This is the way you make laws for your dog: and this is the way the judges make law for you and me.
Page 155 - The notion that a man's liberty consists in giving his vote at election-hustings, and saying, " Behold, now I too have my twenty-thousandth part of a Talker in our National Palaver ; will not all the gods be good to me?