Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... Ill Capitalism and Social Ideas. {Capital; Human Labour) IT is impossible to form a judgment as to what is the course of social action which the facts of to day are so insistently demanding, unless one is willing to be guided in one's judgment by an insight into the fundamental forces of social life. The following remarks are the outcome of an attempt to attain to such an insight. Nothing fruitful can be achieved in these times by measures that proceed from a judgment formed from a restricted sphere of observation. The facts that have emerged from the social movement reveal disturbances going on at the very base of the social order; what they indicate in no wise lies merely on the surface of things; and to cope with them requires an insight that also penetrates to their foundations. The terms Capital and Capitalism have come to signify that wherein the workingclass part of mankind look to find the root of their troubles. To come to any fruitful conclusion as to the way in which capital acts as a hindrance, or a help, in the processes of the body social, one must learn to see exactly how capital is created and expended by men's individual abilities by their conceptions of Rights, and by the forces of the economic life. In speaking of Human Labour, we mean that factor which, in conjunction with the nature-basis of economic activity and with capital, goes to create economic values; and it is at his labour that the worker becomes aware of his position in society. In order to decide what position human labour should occupy in the body social so as to do no violence to the worker's sense of self-respect as a man, one must keep clearly in mind the relation men's labour bears on the one hand to the development of individual talent, and on the...
