The Unity of Law - As Exhibited in the Relations of Physical, Social, Mental and Moral Science

...the exclusion of the mind and morals, skill and taste; the idea that buying and selling constitute the chief end and aim of life; that "to enable capital to obtain a proper return, labor must be kept suppressed;"* and that the carrying of goods back and forth...

• original: Huskisson. William Huskisson. Huskisson (1770–1830) was a prominent British statesman and economist known for his support of free trade. —To provide current confirmation of the ideas presented at that time, the reader may consider the following passages from two of the most respected British journals and one of the most eminent British authors:

"The English land system, as it exists at present, makes the misery of the peasant a necessity across the greater part of England. Just as the events of the period between the outbreak of the Continental War and the abolition of the Corn Laws The Corn Laws (1815–1846) were tariffs on imported grain that kept food prices high to benefit landowners, often at the expense of the starving poor. were based on the starvation of the people, so too—if the current method of leasing and hiring land remains in force—it is necessary for the agricultural laborer to be underpaid, underfed, miserably housed, and so unable to move that he secures a constant supply of cheap labor for the tenant farmer." —British Quarterly Review, July 1872; Article: "The Agricultural Laborers' Strike."

"From these [wealthy] classes, we already hear a protest against emigration. 'Keep our people at home,' they say, 'we shall want them when trade revives.' There may be no work for them at present. Their wives and little ones may be starving with cold and hunger. They may be roaming the streets as vagrants, crowding the temporary shelters, or besieging the doors of the poorhouses; but still, they say, 'keep them—all will be well by and by.' Meanwhile, let the poor-rate A local tax collected to provide relief for the poor. rise; let the small householder in Whitechapel A district in East London then known for extreme poverty.—himself struggling manfully for independence on the verge of beggary—pay six shillings for every pound he earns to feed his neighbor who has sunk into destitution. The tide will turn; labor will soon be in demand again. Our profits will return to us, and the Whitechapel householder may console himself with the certainty that his tax will sink again from six shillings to three." —James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, London, 1872, p. 164.

"The 'kindly feeling,' as they call it, in the rural counties—that is, the half-contemptuous pity on one side and the respectful deference on the other which has for centuries marked the semi-feudal relations of village labor—has already died away. The farmers are determined that the men shall know what a 'contract' is really like. They will not take the Bishop of Gloucester's advice and 'duck' To "duck" meant to forcibly submerge someone in water as a form of intimidation or punishment. the union lecturers, only because the laborers outnumber them ten to one; if they were told by a bishop that physical violence is a proper weapon to employ, the laborers might 'duck' the farmers instead. This winter, they will endeavor to put the unions down. All over the country, we shall see villages in which ten or fifteen angry, unreasonable, and well-fed farmers will stand face to face with a hundred or a hundred and fifty laborers who are angry, unreasonable, and without food. The union members will be locked out of their jobs in great numbers, and..."