Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd.

  • Henry Demarest Lloyd
Date:
1906
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Credit: Man, the social creator / by Henry Demarest Lloyd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every intuition of goodness, truth, and beauty of life as strongly as do the men who preach, teach, rhyme or reform. If they are still competitive, it is because the society which brought them up has taught them to be so. It is important to remember that the present wage sys¬ tem is absolutely new—but one hundred years old or less. It has produced enormous benefits to employers, and to society—so far as the latter is benefitted by reproduction in vast quantities and at depressing prices for certain things in iron, wool, etc. But it cannot last, nor be wished to last, if for these it sacrifices things more precious, things for which men have always cared more than for excess of things to wear—personal independence, health, home, life, leisure. It cannot stand comparison with the system that preceded it if it is less advantageous in these respects. Private property being individualism, and its abolition being socialism, the two are correlative and must yield to each other just as rapidly as experience and necessity dictate. Civilisation is a growth both ways—an in¬ tensification of private property in certain ways, an abolition of it in others. The home property is likely to become more and more individual or familistic as against the community, but those forms of property in which the welfare of others is more concerned than that of the owner will be modified or abolished. The wonderful development of the modern individual out of the rudimentary monotony of the tribe or animal life, has gone on with an equally wonderful development of the socialisation of the postoffice, the administration of justice, wagon roads, schools, currency, police and war all of which used to be entirely or partially individual,. The higher the individualism the higher must be the socialism. The resultant of these opposing forces o
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