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Page 5 - ... them as are good men, would be increased far more than their riches would be diminished. Only the Nihilist, however, would desire blindly to plunge society into chaos. Goldwin Smith sees that it is plainly beyond man's power to alter the fundamental conditions of his being. " There are inequalities, greater even than those of wealth, which are fixed, not by human lawgivers, but by nature, such as those of health, strength, intellectual power and length of life; and these draw other inequalities...
Page 21 - That the State has, by the most solemn and repeated guarantees, ratified private proprietorship and undertaken to protect it, matters nothing ; nor even that it has itself recently sold the land to the proprietor, signed the deed of sale, and received the payment. That such views can be propounded anywhere but in a robber's den or a lunatic asylum, still more, that they can find respectful hearers, is a proof that the economical world is in a state of curious perturbation.
Page 13 - This is felt, in an increasing degree, by the better natures ; private fortunes are held more and more subject to the claims of the community ; a spontaneous communism is thus making way, notably in the United States. — GOLDWIN SMITH (False Hopes). Victorian Socialists
Page 53 - There is nothing mandatory about the trade-in provision either on the part of the Government or on the part of the shipowner.
Page 2 - to grasp a full share of the good things of the present life has been intensified by the departure, or decline, of the religious faith which held out to the unfortunate in this world the hope of indemnity in another. 'If tomorrow we die, and death is the end, to-day let us eat and drink; and if we have not the wherewithal, let us see if we cannot take from those who have.
Page 4 - ... has been, gradual; and hope much from steady, calm and harmonious effort, little from violence or revolution. Not that he lacks deep and fervent sympathy with the effort of reformers to relieve the mass of working-men from social and political disabilities. No man with a brain and a heart, he says, can fail to be penetrated with a sense of the unequal distribution of wealth, or to be willing to try any experiment which may hold out a reasonable hope of putting an end to poverty. By the success...
Page 20 - it is proposed to confiscate, either openly, or under the thin disguise of the taxing power, every man's freehold — even the farm which the settler has just reclaimed by the sweat of his own brow from the wilderness. And it is emphatically added, with all the exultation of insolent injustice, that no compensation is to be allowed. That the State has, by the most solemn and repeated guarantees, ratified private proprietorship and undertaken to protect it, matters nothing ; nor even that it has itself...
Page 13 - That wealth is often abused, fearfully abused, is too true : so are strength, intellect, power and opportunities of all kinds. It is also true that nothing can be more miserable, or abject, than to live in idleness by the sweat of other men's brows. But this is felt, in an increasing degree, by the better natures ; private fortunes are held more and more subject to the claims of the community : a spontaneous communism is thus making way, and notably, as every observer will see, in the United States.
Page 10 - ... although they were to reap no reward. The difficulty was to keep some of the members from working too hard. Both the public and philosophers seem to have made a mistake on this point. Goodwin Smith says of property: — Its economical foundation is that it is the only known motive power of production. Slavery has its whip; but, saving this, no general incentive to labor other than property has yet been devised. But Mr. Smith omits to notice that public property is property, and an incentive....
Page 35 - ... dealing with questions relating to land is the more remarkable because an exactly opposite bias is characteristic of Continental Socialism. In France, for instance, it is capital invested in trade against which all the attacks of Socialism are directed. In the forcible language of Mr. Goldwin Smith, "Capital, spelt with a big initial letter, swells into a malignant giant — the personal enemy of Labour ; spelt in the natural way, it is simply that with which Labour starts on any enterprise,...