If, indeed, it had but substituted this collective economic organization for the criminal and judicial system it presently would have had as little n… - Edward Bellamy

The old so-called ethics of property absolutely overlooked the whole ethical side of the subject--namely, its bearing on human relations.

Truly, it is these secondary consequences, these moral and social reactions of economic equality to create a noble atmosphere of human intercourse, that, after all, have been the greatest contribution which the principle has made to human happiness.

Any economic proposition which can not be stated in ethical terms is false. Nothing can be in the long run or on a large scale sound economics which is not sound ethics. It is not, therefore, a mere coincidence, but a logical necessity, that the supreme word of both ethics and economics should be one and the same--equality. The golden rule in its social application is as truly the secret of plenty as of peace.