第 22 节
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翱翔1981 更新:2021-02-19 18:34 字数:1847
intended; by the Giver of both; not to scatter; nor to give away;
but to employ those riches in the service of mankind; in other
words; in the redemption of the erring and aid of the weak
that is to say; there is first to be the work to gain money; then
the Sabbath of use for it the Sabbath; whose law is; not to
lose life; but to save。 It is continually the fault or the folly
of the poor that they are poor; as it is usually a child's fault
if it falls into a pond; and a cripple's weakness that slips at a
crossing; nevertheless; most passers by would pull the child
out; or help up the cripple。 Put it at the worst; that all the
poor of the world are but disobedient children; or careless
cripples; and that all rich people are wise and strong; and you
will see at once that neither is the socialist right in desiring
to make everybody poor; powerless; and foolish as he is himself;
nor the rich man right in leaving the children in the mire。
34。 The quantity of life is the same in both cases; but it is
differently allotted。
35。 The proper offices of middle…men; namely; overseers (or
authoritative workmen); conveyancers (merchants; sailors; retail
dealers; &c。); and order…takers (persons employed to receive
directions from the consumer); must; of course; be examined
before I can enter farther into the question of just payment of
the first producer。 But I have not spoken of them in these
introductory papers; because the evils attendant on the abuse of
such intermediate functions result not from any alleged principle
of modern political economy; but from private carelessness or
iniquity。
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