The Church and Society

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Macmillan, 1912 - 225 sider
 

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Side 166 - For the principle of conciliation and arbitration in industrial dissensions. For the protection of the worker from dangerous machinery, occupational disease, injuries, and mortality. For the abolition of child labor. For such regulations of the conditions of toil for women as shall safeguard the physical and moral health of the community. For the suppression of the 'sweating system.
Side 166 - sweating system." For the gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practical point, with work for all; and for that degree of leisure for all which is the condition of the highest human life.
Side 165 - The Churches must stand: For equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life. For the protection of the family, by the single standard of purity, uniform divorce laws, proper regulation of marriage, and proper housing.
Side 8 - Yes, paradoxical as it may seem, in those monasteries was preserved the sacred fire of modern liberty, through those feudal centuries when all the outside world was doing its best to trample it out.
Side 166 - sweating system.' For the gradual and reasonable reduction of the hours of labor to the lowest practicable point and for that degree of leisure for all, which is a condition of the highest human life. For a release from employment one day in seven. For a living wage as a minimum in every industry, and for the highest wage that each industry can afford. For the most equitable division of the products of industry that can ultimately be devised.
Side 66 - ... between the two, between educator and pupil, between request and obedience, there should invisibly rule a third something to which educator and pupil are equally subject. This third something is the right, the best, necessarily conditioned and expressed without arbitrariness in the circumstances. The calm recognition, the clear knowledge, and the serene, cheerful obedience to the rule of this third something is the particular feature that should be constantly and clearly manifest in the bearing...
Side 60 - You in Rochester are meeting one of the great tests of our democratic life. You are proving that the virtues of humanity far exceed in force the vices of humanity. You are showing that it is health that is really contagious, and that in a...
Side 222 - A community where every citizen shall receive an education which will fit him physically, mentally and morally for the work in life that he is best suited to perform, and for the sacred duties of parenthood and citizenship.

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