It Is Not From Top To Bottom

Compare Society To A Boat. Her Progress Through The Water Will Not Depend Upon The Exertion Of Her Crew, But Upon The Exertion Devoted To Propelling Her. This Will Be Lessened By Any Expenditure Of Force In Fighting Among Themselves, Or In Pulling In Different Directions.

I Do Not Think That Any Sorrow Of Youth Or Manhood Equalled In Intensity Or Duration The Black And Hopeless Misery Which Followed The Wrench Of Transference From A Happy Home To A School.

It Is As To Whether Its Services Or Uses Are To Be Exchanged Or Not Which Makes A Tool An Article Of Capital Or Merely An Article Of Wealth. Thus, The Lathe Of A Manufacturer Used In Making Things Which Are To Be Exchanged Is Capital, While The Lathe Kept By A Gentleman For His Own Amusement Is Not.

Passing Into Higher Forms Of Desire, That Which Slumbered In The Plant, And Fitfully Stirred In The Beast, Awakes In The Man.

The Ideal Social State Is Not That In Which Each Gets An Equal Amount Of Wealth, But In Which Each Gets In Proportion To His Contribution To The General Stock.