The Fundamental Principle Of Human Action, The

At The Beginning Of This Marvelous Era It Was Natural To Expect, And It Was Expected, That Laborsaving Inventions Would Lighten The Toil And Improve The Condition Of The Laborer; That The Enormous Increase In The Power Of Producing Wealth Would Make Real Poverty A Thing Of The Past... From Progress And Poverty, To Those Who, Seeing The Vice And Misery That Spring From The Unequal Distribution Of Wealth And Privilege, Feel The Possibility Of A Higher Social State And Would Strive For Its Attainment.

If You Would Have The Slave Show The Virtues Of The Freeman, You Must First Make Him Free.

We Have Made, And Still Are Making, Enormous Advances On Material Lines. It Is Necessary That We Commensurately Advance On Moral Lines. Civilization, As It Progresses, Requires A Higher Conscience, A Keener Sense Of Justice, A Warmer Brotherhood, A Wider, Loftier, Truer Public Spirit.

He Who Sees The Truth, Let Him Proclaim It, Without Asking Who Is For It Or Who Is Against It.

So Long As All The Increased Wealth Which Modern Progress Brings Goes But To Build Up Great Fortunes, To Increase Luxury And Make Sharper The Contrast Between The House Of Have And The House Of Want, Progress Is Not Real And Cannot Be Permanent.