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Samuel A. Barnett – Practictable socialism. New in the archives. “Facing, then, the whole position, we see that among the majority of Englishmen life is poor; that among the few life is made rich. The thoughts stored in books, the beauty rescued from nature and preserved in pictures, the intercourse made possible by means of steam locomotion, stir powers in the few which lie asleep in the many. If it be true, as the poet says, that men ‘live by admiration,’ it is the few who live, for it is they who know that which is worth admiration”.
Acknowledgements: The image of Henrietta Barnett and Samuel Barnett was sourced from Wikipedia and marked as being in the public domain.