Deutsche Geschichte: Urzeit und Mittelalter

Urzeit und Mittelalter (Abt. 1)

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Identifikator:: 1892063557

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Deutsche Geschichte

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Gaertner

Year of publication:: 1891-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1892064901

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238006

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Author:: Lamprecht, Karl http://d-nb.info/gnd/118569015

Title:: Urzeit und Mittelalter

Volume count:: Abt. 1

Place of publication:: Freiburg im Breisgau

Publisher:: Heyfelder

Year of publication:: 1904

Scope:: XIX, 488 S.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Elftes Buch

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CATHOLIC SOCIALISTS. 143 cellor. These two sections, labouring side by side, enemies when they contend for their cohorts of working men, but allies when they lead them to the poll, are both rapidly gaining ground. With the democrats, no understanding can be thought of ; their hostility is absolute. But with the Catholics, an accord is not impossible, by means of concessions on both sides. As Bismarck has very justly remarked, in politics, the do ut des is always concealed at the bottom of every com promise; only the policy of Rome has never failed to exact much and to yield very little; while Prince Bismarck is not in the habit of treating on this footing. It is difficult to utter an impartial judgment on this extra ordinary movement that we have endeavoured to describe. It would, I believe, be unjust to assert that the commiseration for the lot of the labourers and the socialistic ideas expressed by the clergy are only a comedy enacted with the object of gaining power. A charitable priest must be sincerely touched with the evils which the working classes suffer in the crowded industrial centres. If he has read the Fathers of the Church, he will mark with indignation how little their precepts serve as a guide- amid the facts of modem life. With the ideal of Christian charity in his heart, what must he think of the economic world, ruled, as it is, by this hard law of competition which is no other than the animal struggle for existence? From the pulpit, the good pastor must say to us, “ Treat thy brother as thyself.” But the manufacturer replies to him “ If I do not reduce the cost of production and wages to the lowest point, I shall not be able to sell either in the home or the foreign market, and we shall all lose our livelihood.” No doubt Bishop Ketteler has been touched with the grace of Socialism through reading Lassalle, as Prince Bismarck was by listening to his words. But yet, when we see the vast masses of these innumerable associations guided and inspired with a view to the poll, and the clergy unhesitatingly allying themselves to these Democrats who have sworn, against Christianity, a Hannibal’s oath, we can no longer believe that this whole campaign, so skilfully planned, has no other in spiration than love for one’s neighbour and no other aim than

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