[126] Samuel Hartlib, London’s Charity Inlarged, 1650, p. i.
[127] Hartlib, op. cit.
[128] Firth and Rait, Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1911, vol. ii, pp. 104-10. An ordinance creating a corporation had been passed Dec. 17, 1647 (ibid., vol. i, pp. 1042-5).
[129] Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 1098-9.
[130] Stockwood, at Paul’s Cross, 1578 (quoted by Haweis, Sketches of the Reformation, p. 277).
[131] Steele, op. cit. (note [76] above), p. 22.
[132] R. Younge, The Poores’ Advocate, 1654 (Thomason Tracts, E. 1452 [3]), p. 6.
[133] For these and other passages from Restoration economists to the same effect, see a striking article by Dr. T. E. Gregory on The Economics of Employment in England (1660-1713) in Economica, no. i, Jan., 1921, pp. 37 seqq., and E. S. Furniss, The Position of the Labourer in a System of Nationalism, 1920, chaps. v, vi.
[134] Das Kommunistische Manifest, 1918 ed., pp. 27-8: “Die Bourgeoisie, wo sie zur Herrschaft gekommen, hat alle feudalen, patriarchalischen, idyllischen verhältnisse zerstört. Sie hat die buntscheckigen Feudalbande, die den Menschen an seinen natürlichen Vorgesetzten knüpften, unbarmherzig zerrissen, und kein anderes Band zwischen Mensch und Mensch übrig gelassen, als das nackte Interesse, als die gefühllose bare Zahlung.”
[135] Defoe, Giving Alms no Charity, 1704, pp. 25-7.