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men to be honest to each other. There is a magic in honesty 

 a charm in the right a power in justice which compels all 

 men's respect and acquiescence. 



A true society can be founded in equity, and stand secure on 

 that foundation; never on fraud and falsehood, wrong and 

 injustice. There can never be a true human society based on 

 physical force, contest, war. And these are the elements of 

 our present society, in which it is held that every man has a 

 right to all his ancestors got by fraud or force, and all he can 

 get by similar means. The highest authorities hold that work- 

 ing men may combine to get the highest possible price for their 

 labour, without regard to its real value. They also pretend 

 that capitalists may combine to get labour for the lowest pos- 

 sible price, and with an equal disregard to right and justice. 

 So distinguished a senator as Earl Derby asserts this right of 

 robbery. In the same way a few surgeons might combine to 

 make a millionaire give half his fortune or the whole for an 

 operation which would save his life. Such a principle of poli- 

 tical economy creates a society of Ishmaels every man's hand 

 against his neighbour and is the exact opposite of every 

 humane and Christian principle. 



As I am writing the concluding paragraphs of this work, 

 there comes to me the address of Lord Napier and Ettrick, as 

 President of the Social Science Congress at Plymouth. This 

 enlightened diplomatist and statesman said: "With reference 

 to real property, it should never be forgotten for one moment 

 that Great Britain stands apart and alone in the civilised world. 

 Real property is transferred and transmitted under laws, cus- 

 toms, and influences which all combine with irresistible increas- 

 ing power to produce consolidation. Primogeniture, entail, 

 traditional predilections, the exigencies of fashion and recreation, 

 find the accumulation of capital are working incessantly together 

 to promote great aggregations of land in the hands of a few. 

 The statistics of landed property have not been verified with 



