Geburtenrückgang u. Sozialreform

Wirtschaftspolitisches Handbuch von Rumänien

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Identifikator:: 1023136384

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-39354

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Neumann, Paul

Title:: Der Salzhandel, die Salinen und Salzbergwerke Württembergs im 19. Jahrhundert

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Druck von H. Laupp jr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (III, 175 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: I. Abschnitt. Allgemeine Darstellung

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CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. 125 The Christian workman will therefore be hardworking, sub missive to his masters, sober, always satisfied, and respectful towards all in authority over him. This perfectly correct idea of Bishop Ketteler makes it clear why demagogues preach atheistic materialism. The natural instinct of man impels him to seek his own happiness, and if the hope of finding it in another world, where justice reigns, is taken away from him, he will seek it here. If matter is all that exists, then, at all cost, he must have material and immediate enjoyment. The working men will say. We have heard enough of your promised heavenly joys. We will cash no more of these bills upon another world ; it is in this world, the only real one, that we wish to have happiness. Right is an empty word ; might decides everything. We are the most numerous, and if we can come to an understanding among ourselves we shall be the strongest, and thus we shall be in the right Royalty, magistracies, creeds, armies, parliaments— all these institutions were created by our masters in order to enslave and exploit us. Everything must be overthrown, even by fire and sword, if needful, in order that we may taste these pleasures in which capitalists, enriched with our spoils, have too long rioted. On the one hand, as we have seen, atheistic materialism, by denying the ideal and all abstract right, deprives the claims of the proletariat of all sound basis, and on this account the friends of the people should reject it ; but on the other hand, by annihilating all hope of a future life, where unalloyed bliss would compensate for the fleeting trials of this world, it insti gates the masses to overturn the established social system, in order, amidst the general ruin, to gain possession of wealth and the material joys that wealth can provide. It is, therefore, evident that those who desire a violent social revolution are interested in spreading atheism, and that those who spread this doctrine are furnishing the revolutionary Socialists with arms. Christianity preaches the common brotherhood of all men, the mutual love and equality of all ; it honours labour, because abour alone gives man a chance to live ; it reinstates the poor

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