And The Men That Were Boys When

One Man In One Mood Will Attack Industrial Capitalism For Its Destruction Of Beauty; Another For Its Incompetence; Another For The Vileness Of The Men Who Chiefly Prosper Under It; Another For Its Mere Confusion And Noise; Another For Its False Values; It Was Until Recently Most Fiercely Attacked For Its Impoverishment Of The Workers, Its Margin Of Unemployment And The Rest - Indeed So Fiercely That It Was Compelled To Seek Palliatives For The Evil. With A Mass Of Men It Was Attacked From A Vague But Strong Sense Of Injustice; It Allowed A Few Rich To Exploit Mankind.

Property, As A General Social Institution, Well-divided Property, Having Disappeared And Capitalism Having Taken Its Place, You Cannot Reverse The Process Without Acting Against Natural Economic Tendencies.

Had There Been Any Existent Vital And Energetic Institution Left In Society After The Reformation For The Use Of Small Property In Coordinated Form-that Is, In Combination, So That The Average Man's Holding Could Be Put To Useful Purpose In Company With The Holdings Of A Great Number Of Other Men Of His Own Sort, The New Evils Would Not Have Arisen.

Statistics Are The Triumph Of The Quantitative Method, And The Quantitative Method Is The Victory Of Sterility And Death.

The Society Of Christendom And Especially Of Western Christendom Up To The Explosion, Which We Call The Reformation, Had Been A Society Of Owners: A Proprietarial Society. It Was One In Which There Remained Strong Bonds Between One Class And Another, And In Which There Was A Hierarchy Of Superior And Inferior, But Not, In The Main, A Distinction Between A Restricted Body Of Possessors And A Main Body Of Destitute At The Mercy Of The Possessors, Such As Our Society Has Become.