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But If We Are To Retain Freedom, Then We Can Only Do So By Keeping The Determining Mass Of The Citizens The Possessors Of Property With Personal Control Over It, As Individuals Or As Families. For Property Is The Necessary Condition Of Economic Freedom In The Full Sense Of That Term. He That Has Not Property Is Under Economic Servitude To Him Who Has Property, Whether The Possessor Of It Be Another Individual Or The State.

There Is Already Something Like A Jewish Monopoly In High Finance... Here Is The Same Element Of Jewish Monopoly In The Silver Trade, And In The Control Of Various Other Metals, Notably Lead, Nickel, Quicksilver. What Is Most Disquieting Of All, This Tendency To Monopoly Is Spreading Like A Disease.

It Is Mind Which Determines The Change Of Society, And It Was Because The Mind At Work Was A Catholic Mind That The Slave Became A Serf And Was On His Way To Becoming A Peasant And A Fully Free Man-a Man Free Economically As Well As Politically. The Whole Spirit Of The Church Was For Small Property, And That Spirit Was Slowly, Instinctively, Working For The Establishment Of Small Property Throughout Christendom.

Loss And Possession, Death And Life Are One, There Falls No Shadow Where There Shines No Sun.

Under The Old Philosophy Which Had Governed The High Middle Ages Things Had Been Everywhere Towards A Condition Of Society In Which Property Was Well Distributed Throughout The Community, And Thus The Family Rendered Independent.