Category: Philosophy & Ethics

The New Society

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Chapters

1. Chapter 1

Produced by Markus Brenner, Irma Špehar and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file made using scans of public domain works at the University...

2. Chapter 2

There is a grain of truth in the popular political belief that war embodies a judgment of God. At any rate character is judged by it; not indeed in the sense of popular politics...

3. Chapter 3

This time must be turned to good account. When we have come to the end of these observations we shall understand what a huge task lies between us and the realization of the new...

4. Chapter 4

A fifth class is now emerging--the work-shy. The others call them the tramp-proletariat, the disgruntled, the declassed, who set their hopes on disorder. Their goal is still und...

5. Chapter 5

Thought is the most responsible of all functions. He who thinks for others must look after them, and if they live he may not slay them. It is therefore a mischievous piece of ro...

6. Chapter 6

The final judgment of the British in the affairs of life is "this is English," "that is not English." Foreign lands are a subject of geographical and ethnological study. The who...

7. Chapter 7

[Footnote 24: Black, red and gold were originally the colours of a students' Corps in Frankfort. They were adopted as the colours of the abortive German Federation of 1848, appa...

8. Chapter 8

The essence of the interchange of labour will, therefore, consist in this, that while the distinction between physical and intellectual work will still exist, there will be no d...

9. Chapter 9

This last is not merely the only suitable one for us and the only one which is worthy of our past; it will also in time become the general order of society prevailing over all t...