Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

But if we are to retain freedom, then we can only do so by keeping the determining mass of the citizens the possessors of property with personal control over it, as individuals or as families. For property is the necessary condition of economic freedom in the full sense of that term. He that has not property is under economic servitude to him who has property, whether the possessor of it be another individual or the State.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

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If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course.