Notes on the Class Struggle

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Collectivist Society, 1904 - 44 halaman
 

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Halaman 44 - Get up!" And in the dead of night, To win the bairns their bite and sup, I rise a weary wight. My flannel dudden donn'd, thrice o'er My birds are kiss'd, and then I with a whistle shut the door I may not ope again.
Halaman 38 - The crest and crowning of all good. Life's final star is brotherhood, For it will bring again to earth Her long-lost poesy and mirth ; Will send new light on every face, A kingly power upon the race. And till it come, we men are slaves, And travel downward to the dust of graves.
Halaman 24 - That knows not its own force, and therefore stands Loaded with wood and stone ; the powerless hands Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein. One kick would be enough to break the chain; But the beast fears, and what the child demands It does; nor its own terror understands, Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain. Most wonderful! with its own hand it ties And gags itself— gives itself death and war For pence doled out by kings from its own store. Its own are all things between earth and heaven;...
Halaman 38 - Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Blind creeds and kings have had their day. Break the dead branches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermath — Our hope is in heroic men, Star-led to build the world again. To this event the ages ran: Make way for Brotherhood — make way for Man.
Halaman 24 - THE people is a beast of muddy brain That knows not its own strength, and therefore stands Loaded with wood and stone; the powerless hands Of a mere child guide it with bit and rein; One kick would be enough to break the chain, But the beast fears, and what the child demands It does; nor its own terror understands, Confused and stupefied by bugbears vain.
Halaman 13 - By far the greatest calamity that can remain among men is the calamity of a divided interest. And, therefore, by far the highest employment of human thought is that which seeks to end it ; and, therefore, again, no deeds are so immensely effective as those directed against capitalism, no cause so morally and scientifically sure as the cause of socialism, no thought so fundamentally free, fair and fruitful as the collectivist thought.
Halaman 8 - A Society is conceivable of men leading inoffensive lives, scrupulously fulfilling their contracts, who yet yield to each other no other advantage beyond those agreed upon." To this it may be observed, first, that in supposing it possible that the present system could ever bring in such a social state, Spencer proves himself a true representative

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