Human evolution : an inductive study of man / by G. Rome Hall.

  • Hall, George Rome.
Date:
1903
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    and no labour often performed better, giving hereby the direct lie to the apologiser for capitalism who asserts that men will not work except with the incentive of profit or high pay before them. All these instances are merely examples of that “ deepening and softening ” of the human character which is so characteristic of this era, which lead the majority by blind faith in the intrinsic merits of each cause rather than by reasoning, to decide for freedom of speech, freedom of opinion, freedom of thought; for the abolition of chattel-slavery, of imprisonment for debt, of child labour; for the enactment of free education, and of all semi-socialist acts recently mentioned. This deepening and softening is a terrible grief to the sturdy (for which read brutal) conscious individualists of past days, else their tears are as those of crocodiles ; those who are honestly afraid of this trend of national character are in the position of the slave imwilling to accept freedom because he fears, after his virtual imprison- ment and apathy in re-action, to enter upon the wider and better world without and beyond him. Semi-Socialistic Public Services. 1. The Various Roads and Public Pathways.—These are responsible to some extent to the Board of Trade, but are not administered by a central department, various local authorities being responsible for administration. They are even semi- communistic, being free to everyone now, every adult directly or indirectly paying their quota and able to utilise any they think fit. 2. The Pducational Service.—Since education is now free to every child in consideration of the tax contributed either directly or indirectly by its parents, this service can be called semi-commimistic too. It now requires a proper gradation of secondary schools and free university or collegial education to make the training complete for those specially requiring it; it