The Return of Christendom
The Return of Christendom
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It means that the ideal of leisure be sup- planted by one of work and service on a basis of function. The implications of such a changed ideal of life are simply enormous. It would mean in the first place that occupations would not be esteemed in proportion as they win money, afford comfort and leisure, and confer indi- vidual power and distinction, but in proportion as they afford liie individual the opportunity of doing work that is useful and desirable for the purposes of human life. It woul...d mean that instead of trade and commerce being exalted at the expense of agriculture and the produc- tive arts, agriculture and craftsmanship would come to be exalted in the future as in the past as the foundation of national prosperity and well-being, and measures would be taken to protect all such workers against their position being undermined by speculators in finance by the maintenance of a Just and Fixed Price under a system of Guilds covering the whole of society.
In addition it would be necessary to regulate machin- ery, in the first place, because there can be no economic security for the worker so long as his means of liveli- THE OBSTACLE OF I:N'DUSTRIALISM 139 hood is at the mercy of a new invention; and in the next, because it is an essential condition of any decent and stable social order that machinery be brought into subjection by the abolition of all machinery that involves the subdivision of labour, and this necessitates regulation.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It means that the ideal of leisure be sup- planted by one of work and service on a basis of function. The implications of such a changed ideal of life are simply enormous. It would mean in the first place that occupations would not be esteemed in proportion as they win money, afford comfort and leisure, and confer indi- vidual power and distinction, but in proportion as they afford liie individual the opportunity of doing work that is useful and desirable for the purposes of human life. It woul...d mean that instead of trade and commerce being exalted at the expense of agriculture and the produc- tive arts, agriculture and craftsmanship would come to be exalted in the future as in the past as the foundation of national prosperity and well-being, and measures would be taken to protect all such workers against their position being undermined by speculators in finance by the maintenance of a Just and Fixed Price under a system of Guilds covering the whole of society.
In addition it would be necessary to regulate machin- ery, in the first place, because there can be no economic security for the worker so long as his means of liveli- THE OBSTACLE OF I:N'DUSTRIALISM 139 hood is at the mercy of a new invention; and in the next, because it is an essential condition of any decent and stable social order that machinery be brought into subjection by the abolition of all machinery that involves the subdivision of labour, and this necessitates regulation.
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