An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities which Have Been Founded on the Principle of Cooperation: With an Introductory Essay by the Author of "The Philosophy of Necessity".Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844 - 252 pàgines |
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An Outline of the Various Social Systems & Communities which Have Been ... Mary Hennell Visualització completa - 1844 |
An Outline of the Various Social Systems & Communities which Have Been ... Mary Hennell Visualització completa - 1844 |
An Outline of the Various Social Systems and Communities which Have Been ... Mary Hennell Visualització completa - 1844 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 33 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul, neither said any of them, that aught of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things common.
Pàgina 152 - That any character — from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened — may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means, which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily made so, of those who possess the government of nations.
Pàgina 246 - But the truth is, that though human institutions appear to be, and indeed often are, the obvious and obtrusive causes of much mischief to society, they are, in reality, light and superficial in comparison with those deeper-seated causes of evil which result from the laws of nature and the passions of mankind.
Pàgina 15 - A village, geographically considered, is a tract of country comprising some hundred or thousand acres of arable and waste lands: politically viewed it resembles a corporation or township. Its proper establishment of officers and servants consists of the following descriptions: the potail, or head inhabitant, who has...
Pàgina xii - In almost all countries the condition of the great body of the people is poor and miserable...
Pàgina 16 - The inhabitants gave themselves no trouble about the breaking up and divisions of kingdoms; while the village remains entire, they care not to what power it is transferred, or to what sovereign it devolves; its internal economy remains unchanged.
Pàgina 234 - ... disabled from providing for a family, especially, if himself, or any of them, are afflicted with sickness. The first step, therefore, of practical relief, would be to abolish the poorrates entirely, and in lieu thereof, to make a remission of taxes to the poor of double the amount of the present poor-rates, viz., four millions annually out of the surplus taxes. By this measure, the poor would be benefited two millions, and the house-keepers two millions.
Pàgina 86 - ... and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human Race have been spared by someone who, uprooting the stakes or filling in the ditch, had shouted to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are lost if you forget that the fruits belong to all and the Earth to no one!
Pàgina 106 - THE right of inheritance, or descent to the children and relations of the deceased, seems to have been allowed much earlier than the right of devising by testament. We are apt to conceive at first view that it has nature on its side ; yet we often mistake for nature what we find established by long and inveterate custom.
Pàgina 97 - Several productions of his pen upon these subjects appeared from time to time, and attest both his genius and enthusiasm. But it was chiefly towards a social, practical object, that he strove to stimulate the learned. He perceived the new character which the development of industry must impress on society, and the forms of government. For ten years his writings tended to point out to the industrious classes the new social part which they are destined to perform. In 1814 he published his tract on...