The Causes of Social Revolt: A Lecture, Delivered in London, Portsmouth, Bradford, Nottingham, Derby, and GreenwichLongmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, 1872 - 107 Seiten |
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antagonism Appendix aristocracy aspirations atheist become believe better Bishop Bradlaugh capital capitalists cause of social circumstances civilization comfortable competition condition Conservative creed daily press declared democracy despair duty electors England existence France give Goldwin Smith Government hall heaven-born docility Herbert Spencer House of Commons House of Lords human progress ideas ignorance indirect taxation individual intelligence interest John Stuart Mill labour class Land Tenure Reform landowners laws leaders lecture Littré lives London Lord Derby luxury means measures meeting ment middle class Mill misery moral national opinion nature newspaper Odger oligarchic Paris Parliament party paupers platform political economy politicians poor population position present principle proportion radical religious represent result Review rich rural selfish Silurian Sir Charles Dilke Social Revolt society superior suppression taxes thing thought toil town unscrupulous upper and middle upper class views Walter Morrison wealth Wendell Phillips whole workmen
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 88 - Nay, never falter: no great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. No good is certain, but the steadfast mind, The -undivided will to seek the good: 'Tis that compels the elements, and wrings A human music from the indifferent air.
Seite 96 - ... consider whether, even supposing it guiltless, luxury would be desired by any of us, if we saw clearly at our sides the suffering which accompanies it in the world. Luxury is indeed possible in the future — innocent and exquisite ; luxury for all, and by the help of all ; but luxury at present can only be enjoyed by the ignorant ; the cruelest man living could not sit at his feast, unless he sat blindfold.
Seite 70 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence; ripen, fall and cease: Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Seite 18 - as munny as breaks into 'ouses an' steals, Them as 'as coats to their backs an' taakes their regular meals. Noa, but it's them as niver knaws wheer a meal's to be 'ad. Taake my word for it, Sammy, the poor in a loomp is bad. XIII. Them or thir feythers, tha sees, mun 'a bean a laazy lot, Fur work mun 'a gone to the gittin
Seite 26 - ... such things in the world as passion, prejudice, custom, esprit de corps, class interest, to draw people aside from the pursuit of their interests in the largest and highest sense ! Here is a fatal flaw on the very threshold of...
Seite 15 - ... perquisites. Ten thousand miners delve and toil, giving their labour, risking their lives ; ten masters give their direction or their capital, oftenest only the latter. And in a generation the ten capitalists are rioting in vast fortunes, and the ten thousand workmen are rotting in their graves, or in a workhouse. And yet the ten thousand were at least as necessary to the work as the ten. Yet more. The ten capitalists are practically the law-makers, the magistrates, the government. The educators...
Seite 70 - We have had enough of action, and of motion we, Roll'd to starboard, roll'd to larboard, when the surge was seething free, Where the wallowing monster spouted his foamfountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Seite 2 - Philistia has come to be thought by us the true Land of Promise, and it is anything but that ; the born lover of ideas, the born hater of commonplaces, must feel in this country, that the sky over his head is of brass and iron.
Seite 103 - I will take him from either end of the island— a Cumberland, or a Cornish man, finds himself aggrieved, the Cumbrian says: "This conduct I experience is most unjust. I know a Cumberland man in the House of Lords, the Earl of Carlisle or the Earl of Lonsdale; I will go to him; he will never see a Cumberland man ill-treated.
Seite 12 - ... imperfectly supplied with water ; such conveniences as they have are often so situated as to become nuisances ; they are full enough of draughts to generate any amount of rheumatism ; and in many instances are lamentably dilapidated and out of repair. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the ill effects of such a state of things in every aspect — physical, social, economical, moral, intellectual.