The Problem of Group Responsibility to Society: An Interpretation of the History of American Labor

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Columbia University, 1922 - 269 頁
 

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第 25 頁 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example.
第 22 頁 - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community...
第 13 頁 - Among the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in the United States, nothing struck me more forcibly than the general equality of condition among the people.
第 20 頁 - Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.
第 112 頁 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
第 107 頁 - To secure to the workers the full enjoyment of the wealth they create, sufficient leisure in which to develop their intellectual, moral and social faculties; all of the benefits...
第 45 頁 - ... of the New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics, and Other Workingmen, in 1832.
第 13 頁 - I speedily perceived that the influence of this fact extends far beyond the political character and the laws of the country and that it has no less empire over civil society than over the government ; it creates opinions, engenders sentiments, suggests the ordinary practices of life and modifies whatever it does not produce.
第 18 頁 - I am aware that amongst a great democratic people there will always be some members of the community in great poverty, and others in great opulence : but the poor, instead of forming the immense majority of the nation, as is always the case in aristocratic communities, are comparatively few in number, and the laws do not bind them together by the ties of irremediable and hereditary penury. The wealthy, on their side, are...
第 117 頁 - A struggle is going on in the nations of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between capital and labor, which must grow in intensity from year to year and work disastrous results to the toiling millions of all nations if not combined for mutual protection and benefit.

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