The Abolition of InheritanceMacmillan, 1918 - 312 trang |
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abolition of inheritance absurdity accumulation ancestors Andrew Carnegie argument become beneficiaries cent CHAPTER child civilization claim clothing collateral inheritance consider cradle created dead death Declaration defend disinherited Divine Right earned capital earth economic entitled equal erty existence fact father favour fortunes gift give granted hands heir Henry George hereditary heritance human rights idle inalienable industry inequalities inheritance tax inherited wealth injustice J. S. Mill John Stuart Mill justice King King of England labour and earned liberty living mankind Max West ment million dollars mind monarchy moral mujiks nation natural right parents person possession poverty present principle privilege of inheritance produce Progress and Poverty reason recognized reform reward secure sentiment slavery taxation testator theory THOMAS JEFFERSON tion toil transfer true unearned money United whereby workers wrong
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Trang 66 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Trang 262 - Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered and fed thee? or thirsty and gave thee drink ? When saw we thee a stranger and took thee in ? or naked, and clothed thee ; or when saw we thee sick or in prison, and came unto thee...
Trang 96 - The true principle of a free and popular government would seem to be, so to construct it as to give to all, or at least to a very great majority, an interest in its preservation; to found it, as other things are founded, on men's interest.
Trang xxxiv - What gulfs between him and the seraphim ! Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades? What the long reaches of the peaks of song, The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Trang 47 - Is not my equal In many respects — certainly not in color, perhaps not In moral or Intellectual endowment. But In the right to eat the bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Trang xxxiii - BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and despair, A thing that grieves not and that never hopes, Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox? Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw? Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain? Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave To have dominion over sea and...
Trang 67 - ... from a determinate spot of ground, because his father had done so before him ; or why the occupier of a particular field, or of a jewel, when lying on his death-bed, and no longer able to maintain possession, should be entitled to tell the rest of the world which of them should enjoy it after him.
Trang 245 - The inequalities of property which arise from unequal industry, frugality, perseverance, talents, and to a certain extent even opportunities, are inseparable from the principle of private property, and if we accept the principle, we must bear with these consequences of it : but I see nothing objectionable in fixing a limit to what any one may acquire by the mere favor of others, without any exercise of his faculties, and in requiring that if he desires any further accession of fortune, he shall work...
Trang 297 - While we repudiated with the greatest energy that tyranny of society over the individual which most Socialistic systems are supposed to involve, we yet looked forward to a time when society will no longer be divided into the idle and the industrious ; when the rule that they who do not work shall not eat, will be applied not to paupers only, but impartially to all...
Trang 76 - Catherine, who had been too lately picked up to have lost her common sense. In this state Bonaparte found Europe ; and it was this state of its rulers which lost it with scarce a struggle. These animals had become without mind and powerless ; and so will every hereditary monarch be after a few generations.