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Page 7 - Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.
Page 198 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Page 59 - The change in tone since then has been such that one competent economist. professedly anti-Socialist." publishes regretfully to the world that all the younger men are now Socialists. as well as many of the older Professors. It is. indeed. mainly from these that the world has learnt how faulty were the earlier economic generalizations. and above all. how incomplete as guides for social or political action. These generalizations are accordingly now to be met with only in leading articles. sermons....
Page 182 - Consequently, we have the distinctive term Social Democrat, mdicating the man or woman who desires through Democracy to gather the whole people into the State, so that the State may be trusted with the rent of the country, and finally with the land, the capital, and the organization of the national industry — with all the sources of production, in short, which are now abandoned to the cupidity of irresponsible private individuals.
Page 188 - A democratic State cannot become a SocialDemocratic State unless it has in every centre of population a local governing body as thoroughly democratic in its constitution as the central Parliament.
Page 47 - Besides our international relations and the army, navy, police, and the courts of justice, the community now carries on for itself, in some part or another of these islands, the post-office, telegraphs, carriage of small commodities, coinage, surveys, the regulation of the currency and note issue, the provision of weights and measures...
Page 20 - Railway to accept as full compensation for their complete expropriation capital just sufficient to make the railway anew, their amazement at his audacity would at once make him feel the difference between a railway and capital. Colloquially, one property with a farm on it is said to be land yielding rent; whilst another, with a railway on it, is called capital yielding interest.
Page 48 - ... by the salaried officers of large corporations of idle shareholders. More than one-third of the whole business of England, measured by the capital...
Page 27 - The whole, except economic rent, can be added directly to the incomes of the workers by simply discontinuing its exaction from them. Economic rent, arising as it does from variations of fertility or advantages of situation, must always be held as common or social wealth, and used, as the revenues raised by taxation are now used, for public purposes, among which socialism would make national insurance and the provision of capital matters of the first importance.
Page 35 - ... acceptable to a majority of the people, and prepared for in the minds of all; (2) gradual, and thus causing no dislocation, however rapid may be the rate of progress; (3) not regarded as immoral by the mass of the people, and thus not subjectively demoralizing to them; and (4) in this country at any rate, 'constitutional and peaceful.