The Relative Rights and Interests of the Employer and Employed Discussed: and a System Proposed by Which the Conflicting Interests of All Classes of Society May Be Reconciled
The Relative Rights and Interests of the Employer and Employed Discussed: and a System Proposed by Which the Conflicting Interests of All Classes of Society May Be Reconciled
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...when able-bodied men willing to work can find no employment? What then, is the cause of human pauperism, and human degradation? for the two go hand in hand. It is because the social arrangements of men have been made by superstition, and not by knowledge. The sciences lead to an amended order of action, and an ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...when able-bodied men willing to work can find no employment? What then, is the cause of human pauperism, and human degradation? for the two go hand in hand. It is because the social arrangements of men have been made by superstition, and not by knowledge. The sciences lead to an amended order of action, and an amended order of action, leads to an amended condition. But, we must have knowledge in the department in which we require the condition to be amended. That is, mechanical knowledge improves man's mechanical condition, as regards his power over external nature; agricultural knowledge, his agricultural condition; chemical knowledge, his chemical condition, and so forth. But social knowledge--that is, social science--is absolutely requisite, before we can labor intelligently, to improve man's social condition. These are conditions under which man tenants the globe. Every department of nature, and of man's phenomonology, has its laws; and if these laws are infringed, evil is the immediate, invariable, and necessary result. And if man's social condition is evil, --if we find at one end of society a few thousands of individuals with enormous wealth, for which they work not, and never have worked, and at the other end of society millions belonging to the same country, and born on the same soil, with barely the necessaries of life, and too often in abject destitution, there is no other conclusion possible, than, that this poverty arises from man's social arrangements, and that poor the mass of the population must remain, until these arrangements are rectified by knowledge." "Does any man suppose, that the nation will much longer believe that Britain cannot support its inhabitants? Does any man believe, that the men who can make...
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