Art and Labour While apparently
fostering art
caring only for luxury
it
and destroys it, degraded and despised
really blights
and labour
;
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is
under the commercial ideal of heaping up possession of which is a citizen respected
riches, according to
!
I
have
been described
socialism."
I
as
a
do not know how
" person deeply tainted with such an impression originated,
But thought that I was entirely gone that way long ago whether socialists or not, I think we must all feel that man has as I
!
become what he
by the development of his social the race would have become extinct, and therefore it is
instincts, or is
reasonable
to look forward to the attainment of a higher and a juster and
more human I
social life.
believe that
we cannot
stand
still,
and
I
for one
do not
want to go back. Intensely interesting as the study of past ages may be, and many the lessons we may lay to heart from the past life still
and experience of humanity, the
more I
possibilities
of the future are
fascinating.
one
for
am
not
satisfied
democracy, which, indeed,
I
with our
present
commercial
believe to be but a stage of evolution
something more real and complete. The aspiration for a true aspiration, but it has yet liberty, equality, and fraternity is I cannot for the life of me see how you can have to be realised. into
political
freedom without economic freedom.
If there
is
monopoly
of land and the means of subsistence, there must be slavery in some form, as well as pauperism.
The
world, however, cannot be changed
cut-and-dried working model of a society.
I
am
by a ready-made, scheme for the regeneration of
not going to attempt the impertinence of offering