The Ethics of Socialism: Being Further Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism, &c |
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The Ethics of Socialism: Being Further Essays in Modern Socialist Criticism, &C Ernest Belfort Bax No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 216 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last — far off — at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.
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Page 47 - It is useless blinking the fact that the Christian doctrine is more revolting to the higher moral sense of to-day than the Saturnalia or the cult of Proserpine could have been to the conscience of the early Christian.