Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Like most social questions this one has two distinct sides; the economic and the ethical one. In regard to the economic side, the deductions drawn from official reports, show that not less than seven hundred million dollars were paid for drink by consumers in the year 1880. This is no less per capita than one twelfth of the cost of the necessities of life; namely, food, clothing and shelter. Such a fact as this is very startling. Suppose we look at the subject on a small scale, and take the city of Cambridge, where there has for some time been...
Legislation treats this question in its social relations. It is often supposed that there is but one right law, which should be enacted no matter what the results. But we should consider it rather, as a practical means to get at a definite end. The drink habit is the enemy, and it is the business of legislation to pick out suitable weapons, and means of attack, and then to employ them. It must necessarily have a partial, tentative effect, because the subject is one of ethics; because of the necessary effect every man must have on the whole social organism...
Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of Temperance. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...
Ethics of the Social Questions. The Ethics of Temperance. Professor Francis G. Peabody. Sever...