The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation

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Excerpt from The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation: Yale LecturesHow odious such a phrase sounds to a mod ern ear! And yet it needs only a little re¿ec tion to remind us that it may easily have stood for an age of considerable privilege and hap piness. For it must always be remembered, when we are comparing such times with our own, that servitude, in whatever form, whether military, ecclesiastical, or civil, brought with it considerable immunities, back toward which, in freer ages, people of larger freedoms and more absolute personal liberty might easily look with longing and regret. Neither the serf nor the soldier had any least concern about his daily bread. That, the order under which each toiled or served was bound, of necessity, to provide. As little was either concerned for his physical protection and well-being. To care for that, every selfish interest, if not any humane instinct, pledged those whose safety and prosperity rested, finally, very largely on the soldiers' or the serfs' efficient service.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.