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.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

The restoration of property would be a complicated, arduous and presumably a lengthy business; the transformation of a Capitalist Society into a Communist one needs nothing but the extension of existing conditions.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

We may not say to the poor: "You have a right to fight the rich merely because they are rich and in order to make yourselves less poor." We may say: "You have a right to fight to prevent the conditions of your life becoming inhuman," but we may not say, "You have a right to fight merely because you desire to have more and your opponent to have less."

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.