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Page 66 - Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many - they are few.
Page 67 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 127 - Socialist developped by the .ILP' influence was just the sort of person bis fellowworkmen found it very easy to associate with and to trust. When he was ,religious', he filled the chapels of the district with a quaint mixture of Socialist aspiration and evangelical doctrine; if he had finally severed himself from orthodoxy, he joined a .Labour Church' where they sang hymns and offered prayers in the most approved fashion of British nonconformity.
Page xiv - ... mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive which impelled them to take that step, created society. But, in establishing peace, they obviously put a limit upon the struggle for existence. Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued a entrance. And of all the successive shapes which society has taken, that most nearly approaches perfection in which the war of individual against individual is most strictly limited.
Page xiv - The first men who substituted the state of mutual peace for that of mutual war, whatever the motive which impelled them to take that step, created society. But, in establishing peace, they obviously put a limit upon the struggle for existence. Between the members of that society, at any rate, it was not to be pursued A outrance.
Page 166 - ... many thousands without exercising any practical influence on the electorate. Thus, London Trade Unionism, though not particularly backward, exercises very little of the influence on the minds of the generality of workers that it does in the provinces. It seems to me almost impossible to get so closely into touch with the minds of the bulk of the London workers as the Independent Labour Party has already done with those of the manufacturing districts. There are scores of public meetings, addressed...
Page 126 - With the addition of a faith in socialism, the Independent Labour man generally shared all the virtues and limitations of the best type of his fellows. Very possibly he was an active socialist, quite possibly, also, he took a drop too much, occasionally, but he was even more likely to be a Methodist local preacher or perhaps a bigoted 'Rechabite'.
Page 59 - The youth who has the good fortune and inclination for preparing himself as a useful member of society by the study of physic, and who studies that profession with success so as to obtain his diploma from the Surgeons...
Page 148 - Conference implied in the foregoing resolution consisted of representatives of the Congress, the Independent Labour Party, the Social Democratic Federation, and the Fabian Society.
Page 166 - A lecture by Mr Snowden, in a provincial town, is an event of some importance; his coming is announced before-hand on every hoarding, and his speech is well reported in the local press next day. The people who hear it are a sufficient proportion of the total population to reappear in little groups next morning in every workshop in the town; and are sufficiently delighted with what they have...