Money Gives Me Pleasure All

... But As A Godless Greed Pursued Its Career From Excess To Excess, It Provoked A Sort Of Twin Hostile Brother, Equally Godless, Born In The Same Atmosphere Of Utter Disregard For The Foundational Virtues Of Humility And Charity. This Hostile Twin Brother Of Capitalism Was Destined To Be Called Communism, And Is Today Setting Out To Murder Its Elder.

But If We Are To Retain Freedom, Then We Can Only Do So By Keeping The Determining Mass Of The Citizens The Possessors Of Property With Personal Control Over It, As Individuals Or As Families. For Property Is The Necessary Condition Of Economic Freedom In The Full Sense Of That Term. He That Has Not Property Is Under Economic Servitude To Him Who Has Property, Whether The Possessor Of It Be Another Individual Or The State.

The Society Of Christendom And Especially Of Western Christendom Up To The Explosion, Which We Call The Reformation, Had Been A Society Of Owners: A Proprietarial Society. It Was One In Which There Remained Strong Bonds Between One Class And Another, And In Which There Was A Hierarchy Of Superior And Inferior, But Not, In The Main, A Distinction Between A Restricted Body Of Possessors And A Main Body Of Destitute At The Mercy Of The Possessors, Such As Our Society Has Become.

One Man In One Mood Will Attack Industrial Capitalism For Its Destruction Of Beauty; Another For Its Incompetence; Another For The Vileness Of The Men Who Chiefly Prosper Under It; Another For Its Mere Confusion And Noise; Another For Its False Values; It Was Until Recently Most Fiercely Attacked For Its Impoverishment Of The Workers, Its Margin Of Unemployment And The Rest - Indeed So Fiercely That It Was Compelled To Seek Palliatives For The Evil. With A Mass Of Men It Was Attacked From A Vague But Strong Sense Of Injustice; It Allowed A Few Rich To Exploit Mankind.

The Grace Of God Is Courtesy.