Morale : the supreme standard of life and conduct / by G. Stanley Hall.

  • G. Stanley Hall
Date:
1920
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    the highest markets like others, turn the tables upon jour oppressors, take the helm, appropriate the wealth created by your sweat and blood, and take jour rightful place in the sun and rule the world in a new righteousness, not forgetting that simple justice requires that jour oppressors be themselves oppressed in their turn, for there is a sense in which not only capital but all property is robbery for which restitu¬ tion, with interest, is the very least that can be demanded. Now, first of all, we must realize what a toxin appeal all this makes to even the most ignorant toiler. It gives him a rankling sense that he has been a vic¬ tim of age-long injustice, a .self-pity that may rise to patheticism, a rancor against our whole system, not only industrial but social, moral, and even religious, and along with all this and despite its inconsistency with it a cankering feeling of inferiority. He magni¬ fies all the confessed abuses of which the world is only now too full, and becomes suspicious lest ulter¬ ior and sinister designs lurk behind even the most sincere concessions to his claims, which makes all negotiations vastly harder. How shall we set a backfire to this appeal of radi¬ calism? This is perhaps the most vital question of our day, and I can only suggest a few lines along which we may approximate an answer. First of all, we must realize, and sympathetically, the true state of mind of labor, and this is most of all necessary for employers, the vast majority of whom even yet have
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