The Pattern Nation, Or Socialism, Its Source, Drift, and OutcomeMacmillan and Company, Limited, 1907 - 202 頁 |
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abuses affairs aristocratic ballot-box become Boss Boss Tweed capitalist captain of industry carried certainly citizens complete Socialism declares Democracy Democratic despotism developed direct ditions duty effect elector England equal experience Fabian Society fact factory favourable forms of government free industry free system give hands human nature impose individual institution JAMES BRYCE Keir Hardie king labour live majority masses ment methods monopolies municipal party pattern nation people's political side poor popular government present prevail principle private employer private enterprise private property problem progress proposed public opinion purpose question realised reform regard revolution rich Robert South rule secure semi-Socialism semi-Socialist period Socialist system Spoils system struggle system of industry taxation theories things tion toil Trade Union true remedy universal suffrage voice vote wage-earners wages wants wealth Western civilisation Western world whole workers
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第 116 頁 - ... from them without their own consent; without this they have no property at all. For I have truly no property in that which another can by right take from me when he pleases against my consent. Hence it is a mistake to think that the supreme or legislative power of any commonwealth can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.
第 116 頁 - ... that by entering into society, which was the end for which they entered into it, too gross an absurdity for any man to own. Men, therefore, in society having property, they have such a right to the goods which by the law of the community are theirs, that nobody hath a right to take their substance or any part of it from them, without their own consent; without this they have no property at all.
第 7 頁 - It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy.
第 109 頁 - ... worst, pigeon of the flock ; sitting round, and looking on, all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about, and wasting it; and if a pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it, and tearing it to pieces ; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men.
第 5 頁 - Universal suffrage, for example, could not long exist in a community where there was great inequality of property. The holders of estates would be obliged in such case, either in some way to restrain the right of suffrage, or else such right of suffrage would ere long divide the property.
第 89 頁 - The Fabian Society consists of Socialists. It therefore aims at the reorganisation of Society by the emancipation of Land and Industrial Capital from individual ownership, and the vesting of them in the community for the general benefit.
第 108 頁 - If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn : and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap; reserving nothing...
第 43 頁 - And who, that had beheld such a bankrupt beggarly fellow as Cromwell, first entering the parliament-house with a threadbare torn cloak, and a greasy hat, (and perhaps neither of them paid for), could have suspected, that in the space of so few years, he should by the murder of one king, and the banishment of another, ascend the throne...
第 91 頁 - Socialism, as understood by the Fabian Society, means the organization and conduct of the necessary industries of the country, and the appropriation of all forms of economic rent of land and capital by the nation as a whole, through the most suitable public authorities, parochial, municipal, provincial, or central.
第 27 頁 - They are sensible that their habits in life have not been such as to give them those acquired endowments without which, in a deliberative assembly, the greatest natural abilities are for the most part useless...