Documenti ispano-genovesi dell'Archivio di Simancas

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Identifikator:: 176352146X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-145495

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Documenti ispano-genovesi dell'Archivio di Simancas

Place of publication:: Genova

Publisher:: Co' tipi del R.I. de' Sordo-Muti

Year of publication:: 1868

Scope:: 291 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Documento CVII. Risposta del principe Filippo al Figueroa. 1547, 11 luglio

Collection:: Economics Books

CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. I2I himself to merely noting facts without having any ideal in view, holds similar language. Throw down all obstacles, establish liberty in everything for everybody, and, among individuals given over to universal competition, the most skilful must succeed. They will become the richest and most powerful. This is what the welfare of society demands, and that constitutes justice. Malthus was the precursor of Darwin, who, indeed, fully recognized the fact. When Malthus speaks of those for whom there is no place at the banquet of life, and whom nature is not slow to eliminate, he is applying, in advance, the theory of the struggle for existence. Christianity reaches out a hand towards the unfortunate and demands a place for the disin herited. Darwinism and the orthodox economy tell them that they are in the way, and that their business is to disappear. Darwinism submits to the actual, in the name of natural law and necessity. In the name of the ideal, Christianity rebels against the actual, and hopes to subordinate it to the dictates of reason and justice. We shall see, in analyzing Bishop Ketteler’s book, how it is that the Social Democrats prefer atheistic materialism, which logically justifies the enslaving of the people, to Chris tianity, which calls them to freedom. 'I'he Bishop of Mayence was looked upon as the mos eminent prelate of the Catholic hierarchy in Germany. Hi recent death has left a blank which has not been filled since In his book, “The Labour Question and Christianity” ii order to paint the evils of existing society, he borrows th colours and even the expressions of Lassalle. Like him h considers Liberalism and the Political Economy of Manchestei aas Manchesterthum, responsible for these evils. The Frene Ultramontanes of to-day express the same ideas and hoi Thusat Charms, mtheCong«, o the Catholic unions. Count de Mun spoke of the “ socii aims of the Catholic labourers,” and of a return to th ancient organization of labour.” He depicted moder ciety precisely as the Socialists do: “The thirst of spec, on consumes everything; a merciless struggle has take

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