It was no doubt the common opinion of thoughtful men that society was approaching a critical period which might result in great changes. The labor tr… - Edward Bellamy

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

To have criticised the profit system would have been flat blasphemy. The learned men called it a problem--the problem of the unemployed--and gave it up as a conundrum. It was a favorite way our ancestors had of dodging questions which they could not answer without attacking vested interests to call them problems and give them up as insolvable mysteries of Divine Providence.

To educate some to the highest degree, and leave the mass wholly uncultivated, as you did, made the gap between them almost like that between different natural species, which have no means of communication. What could be more inhuman than this consequence of a partial enjoyment of education!