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The Moment A Man Talks To His Fellows He Begins To Lie.

But Though Usury Is In Itself Immoral, And Justly Condemned By Every Ethical Code, Its Chief And Worst Defect In The Particular Case We Are Now Examining, The Growth Of Capitalism And Its Increasing Proletariat, Is The Centralization Of Irresponsible Control Over The Lives Of Men: The Putting Power Over The Proletariat Into The Hands Of A Few Who Can Direct The Loans Of Currency And Credit Without Which That Proletariat Could Not Be Fed And Clothed And Maintained In Work.

The Very Large Units Of Production And Exchange Have Access To Credit On A Large Scale, Sometimes Without Any Cover At All, Merely Upon The Prospect Of Their Success, And Always Upon Terms Far Easier Than Are Open To Their Smaller Rivals. It Is Perhaps On This Line Of Easier Credit That Large Capital Today Does Most Harm To Small Capital, Drives It Out And Ruins It.

It Is Mind Which Determines The Change Of Society, And It Was Because The Mind At Work Was A Catholic Mind That The Slave Became A Serf And Was On His Way To Becoming A Peasant And A Fully Free Man-a Man Free Economically As Well As Politically. The Whole Spirit Of The Church Was For Small Property, And That Spirit Was Slowly, Instinctively, Working For The Establishment Of Small Property Throughout Christendom.

Ownership By Delegation Is A Contradiction In Terms. When Men Say, For Instance (by A False Metaphor), That Each Member Of The Public Should Feel Himself An Owner Of Public Property-such As A Town Park-and Should Therefore Respect It As His Own, They Are Saying Something Which All Our Experience Proves To Be Completely False. No Man Feels Of Public Property That It Is His Own; No Man Will Treat It With The Care Of The Affection Of A Thing Which Is His Own.