第 22 节
作者:翱翔1981      更新:2021-02-19 18:34      字数:1847
  intended; by the Giver of both; not to scatter; nor to give away;
  but to employ those riches in the service of mankind; in other
  words; in the redemption of the erring and aid of the weak
  that is to say; there is first to be the work to gain money; then
  the Sabbath of use for it  the Sabbath; whose law is; not to
  lose life; but to save。 It is continually the fault or the folly
  of the poor that they are poor; as it is usually a child's fault
  if it falls into a pond; and a cripple's weakness that slips at a
  crossing; nevertheless; most passers  by would pull the child
  out; or help up the cripple。 Put it at the worst; that all the
  poor of the world are but disobedient children; or careless
  cripples; and that all rich people are wise and strong; and you
  will see at once that neither is the socialist right in desiring
  to make everybody poor; powerless; and foolish as he is himself;
  nor the rich man right in leaving the children in the mire。
  34。 The quantity of life is the same in both cases; but it is
  differently allotted。
  35。 The proper offices of middle…men; namely; overseers (or
  authoritative workmen); conveyancers (merchants; sailors; retail
  dealers; &c。); and order…takers (persons employed to receive
  directions from the consumer); must; of course; be examined
  before I can enter farther into the question of just payment of
  the first producer。 But I have not spoken of them in these
  introductory papers; because the evils attendant on the abuse of
  such intermediate functions result not from any alleged principle
  of modern political economy; but from private carelessness or
  iniquity。
  The End