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tion. What it teaches is justice, righteousness, or regard for 

 the rights of all. What it inculcates is the brotherhood of 

 man, which is utterly inconsistent with what we see around us; 

 what it condemns is the oppression of the weak, the robbery of 

 the poor, the selfishness of the idle and luxurious. 



Our social state is one of war; class is arrayed against class 

 in serried ranks, and the conflict is going on. What we need 

 is peace, the love of God, and the brotherhood of man ; not 

 merely to be talked about on Sunday, but to become the reality 

 of daily life. Let us consider how such an end may be accom- 

 plished. 



CHAPTER II. 



HUMAN RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. 



A True Society Natural The Rights of Man Individual Property ire 

 Light, Air, Water, Land No Absolute Right of Property Eminent 

 Domain Mines and Fisheries Emigration Responsibilities of 

 Ownership or Possession Production and Distribution. 



A TRUE society must be natural the spontaneous outgrowth 

 of the nature of man, and adapted to his faculties, instincts, 

 and needs. Men naturally group in families, and families 

 unite by intermarriages, by mutual interests, for common enjoy- 

 ment or common defence, into societies, and these group 

 again into states and nations. But where many of these 

 families are poor and ignorant, living in bad conditions, robbed 

 of their rights by the selfishness of others, cheated by the cun- 

 ning, oppressed by the strong, despised by the proud, society 

 falls into great disorders, and becomes a curse instead of a 

 blessing. Wanting the just satisfaction of their natural desires 

 for social life and its enjoyments, men seek for substitutes in 



