EqualityD. Appleton, 1897 - 412 páginas This marvelous book is the sequel to Bellamy's Looking Backward, his utopian novel of several years earlier, where a young man falls asleep in 1887 and wakes in a utopian year 2000, where all social ills are solved. This novel continues the thread of his utopian vision.Equality begins when Julian West returns to the year 2000 to continue his education. The book describes an ideal society in that year. Equality was published just before his death and was not received nearly as well as Looking Backward.Bellamy was born in 1850 in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. As a young man he studied law and entered the bar, but never practiced. He was a journalist and social theorist as well as a novelist. Bellamy's theory of public capitalism would greatly affect American political thought in the 20th century. |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
able absolutely American better called capi capitalists certainly chattel slavery cities citizen competition consumption contemporaries course dress economic equality economic system Edith effect electroscope ethical exclaimed existence fact Finger rings force former give glut hand human ical idea individual interest inventions Julian Julian West labor land Leete less living look machinery masses matter means ment merely modern moral nation natural necessary never nineteenth century nomic occupation organization period plutocracy political political corruption poor popular population possible practically present private capitalism production profit system race replied the doctor result Revolution revolutionary rich seems social society soothsayers sort suppose talists talk teacher tell things tion trade wage-earners wages wealth welfare whole wholly woman women workers
Pasajes populares
Página 262 - He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? You, Mr.
Página 8 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Página 262 - No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Página 246 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! Shades of the prison house begin to close Upon the growing Boy...
Página 412 - The merit of this work is intrinsic. It rests on the broad intelligence and true philosophy of the method employed, and the coherency and accuracy of the results reached. The scope of the work is marvelous. Never was there more crowded into three small volumes.
Página 407 - BEGINNERS OF A NATION. A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People. The first volume in A History of Life in the United States.
Página 9 - ... liberty ? How can men be free who must ask the right to labor and to live from their fellow-men and seek their bread from the hands of others ? How else can any government guarantee liberty to men save by providing them a means of labor and of life coupled with independence ; and how could that be done unless the government conducted the economic system upon which employment and maintenance depend ? Finally, what...
Página 410 - ... the fluent narrative gives no hint of the conscientious labors, far-reaching, world-wide, vast and yet microscopically minute, that give the strength and value which are felt rather than seen. This is due to the art of presentation. The author's position as a scientific workman we may accept on the abundant testimony of the experts who know the solid worth of his work ; his skill as a literary artist we can all appreciate, the charm of his style being self-evident.
Página 260 - ... changes that have taken place. But I am sure that you will never meet any one who, being asked in what direction the progress of the race during the past century has tended most to increase human happiness, would not reply that it had been in the science of the soul and its relation to the Eternal and Infinite.
Página 262 - If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.' ' He that loveth his brother dwelleth in the light.' ' If any man say I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar.