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Page 170 - Are you in earnest? seize this very minute — What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Page 43 - hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Page 118 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice
Page 84 - They are desperate and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men who must either starve or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands. The masters, upon these occasions, are just as clamorous upon the other side, and never cease to call aloud for the assistance of the civil magistrate and the rigorous execution of those laws which have been enacted with so much severity against the combinations of servants, labourers, and journeymen.
Page 83 - We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines upon this account that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform, combination not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate.
Page 44 - Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime ? There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, Crime and hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street.
Page 45 - How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
Page 84 - Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen, who sometimes, too, without any provocation of this kind, combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour. Their usual pretences are, sometimes the high price of provisions, sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work.
Page 36 - ... if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninetynine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse, keeping this...
Page 83 - What are the common wages of labour depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties, whose interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little, as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower, the wages of labour.
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| Title | The Common Sense of Socialism: A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg International library of social science |
| Author | John Spargo |
| Publisher | C.H. Kerr, 1908 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Oct 20, 2006 |
| Length | 184 pages |
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