The Grace Of God Is Courtesy.

When One Remembers How The Catholic Church Has Been Governed, And By Whom, One Realizes That It Must Have Been Divinely Inspired To Have Survived At All.

Communism Worked Honestly By Officials Devoid Of Human Frailties And Devoted To Nothing But The Good Of Its Slaves, Would Have Certain Manifest Material Advantages As Compared With A Proletarian Wage-system Where Millions Live In Semi-starvation, And Many Millions More In Permanent Dread Thereof. But Even If It Were Administered Thus Communism Would Only Produce Its Benefits Through Imposing Slavery.

The Grace Of God Is Courtesy.

Let Us Then Repeat And Firmly Fix This Main Point: The Evil, The Root Evil, Of That To Which The Term Capitalism Has Come To Be Applied, Is Neither Its Functioning For Profit Nor Its Dependence Upon Legally Protected Private Property; But The Presence Of A Proletariat, That Is Of Men Possessing Political Freedom, But Dispossessed Of Economic Freedom, And Existing In Such Large Numbers In Any Community As To Determine The Tone Of All That Community.

To Control The Production Of Wealth Is To Control Human Life Itself. To Refuse Man The Opportunity For The Production Of Wealth Is To Refuse Him The Opportunity For Life; And, In General, The Way In Which The Production Of Wealth Is By Law Permitted Is The Only Way In Which The Citizens Can Legally Exist.