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Sayfa 101 - so many branches of trade in the hands of a few individuals, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses of the poor a yoke little better than slavery itself.
Sayfa 53 - If it be an institution, is it not our duty to God and to our neighbor to rest not till we destroy it ? If it be a man, were it not better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the depths of the sea? There can be
Sayfa 130 - and powerless multitude, sore and suffering, and always ready for disturbance. If working-people can be encouraged to look forward to obtaining a share in the land, the result will be that the gulf between vast wealth and deep poverty will be bridged over, and the
Sayfa 114 - them for the perfecting of his own nature, and, at the same time, that he may employ them, as the minister of God's Providence, for the benefit of others. He that hath a talent, says St. Gregory the Great, let him see that he
Sayfa 130 - 51. Many excellent results will follow from this ; and first of all, property will certainly become more equitably divided. For the effect of civil change and revolution has been to divide society into two widely differing castes. On the one side there is the party which holds the power because it holds the wealth; which has in its
Sayfa 100 - 3. But all agree, and there can be no question whatever, that some remedy must be found, and quickly found, for the misery and wretchedness which press so heavily at this moment on the large majority of the very poor. The ancient workmen's Guilds were destroyed in the last century, and no other organization took their place. Public institutions and the laws have
Sayfa 121 - of the community. Those who labor at a trade or calling do not promote the general welfare in such a fashion as this ; but they do in the most important way benefit the nation, though less directly. We have insisted that, since it is the end of Society to make men better, the • 2a
Sayfa 112 - 23. But the Church, with Jesus Christ for its Master and Guide, aims higher still. It lays down precepts yet more perfect, and tries to bind class to class in friendliness and good understanding. The things of this earth cannot be understood or valued rightly without taking into consideration the
Sayfa 130 - the very soil which yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of good things for themselves and those that are dear to them. It; is evident how such a spirit of willing labor
Sayfa 133 - with right reason: and thus it is manifest that it flows from the eternal law. And in so far as it deviates from right reason it is called an unjust law; in such case it is not law at all, but rather a species of violence."—St. Thomas of Aquin, Summa