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Page 510 - Between these two classes a struggle must go on until the workers of the world organize as a class, take possession of the earth and the machinery of production, and abolish the wage system.
Page 384 - We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin.
Page 384 - The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of the capitalists.
Page 22 - Mr. Hooker, pastor of the church of Newtown, and the || most || of his congregation, went to Connecticut, His wife was carried in a horse litter ; and they drove one hundred and sixty cattle, and fed of their milk by the way.
Page 6 - Elizabeth, which recites that "all the parts of this realm of England and Wales be presently with rogues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggars, exceedingly pestered...
Page 164 - The last years of the eighteenth century and the first of the nineteenth were a period of rapid and violent change.
Page 395 - The management of rates is dishonest on all sides, and there is not a road in the country that can be accused of living up to the rules of the Interstate Commerce law. Of course when some poor devil comes along and wants a pass to save him from starvation, he has several clauses from the Interstate act read to him. But when a rich shipper wants a pass, why, he gets it at once.
Page 370 - Hebrew word for peace, shalom, which could be best translated as "completeness," points in the same direction. ) The concept of the messianic time and of messianic peace differs, of course, among various prophetic sources.
Page 393 - ... its recognized benefits have been attained at the cost of the most unwarranted discriminations, and its effect has been to build up the strong at the expense of the weak, to give the large dealer an advantage over the small trader, to make capital count for more than individual credit and enterprise, to concentrate business at great commercial...
Page 393 - ... of the most unwarranted discriminations, and its effect has been to build up the strong at the expense of the weak, to give the large dealer an advantage over the small trader, to make capital count for more than individual credit and enterprise, to concentrate business at great commercial centers, to necessitate combinations and aggregations of capital, to foster monopoly, to encourage the growth and extend the influence of corporate power, and to throw the control of the commerce of the country...