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The General Assurance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE .
30 TH SEPTEMBER , 1849 .
COMBINATION AS DEVELOPED IN ASSURANCE . IN the turmoil which has pervaded the world , and the contests amid which kings and governments have been dashed against peoples , nations warring with nations , classes jarring with classes , ancl capital and labour rudely jostling against each other , all seemed chaotic , wild , confused , and revolutionary . But still one idea presented itself to the
minds of most men who looked earnestly and truthfully on what was going on around them , as a great primary cause of the heartburnings , discontent , contentention , misery , ancl degradation , with which the world of European civilization is sown broadcast . To such seekers ancl lookers for the truth , it is apparent that the foundation evils are social rather than political ; that the masses pressetl
upon by the necessities of their position—placed in the midst of luxury , from which they are debarred—daily and hourly witnesses of splendour , luxury , and ostentation , not only beyond their reach , but beyond their hopes—accumulating in wondrous profusion material wealth and
comfort , but a small portion of which blesses the arid and sterile sphere of poverty—pressed down by wants , many of them , no doubt , artificial , but still stringent and urgent—seeming to feel that civilization , while it debars them from the full enjoyment of their natural powers , offers them at best but an inadequate compensation—that , denying their right to live except by labour , and not affording labour , it thus practically denies
the right to live—that the masses oppressed by these evils , and feeling themselves every day sinking lower into poverty , destitution , ignorance , vice , and crime , are striving blindly to shake off a yoke too heavy for the galled shoulders of humanity any longer to bear . AVe say striving blindly , because , wherever they have risen in tumults , and sought political power hy force of arms , they seem to have fared like the blind
Samson in the heathen temple , who indeed with tremendous power pulled down the building , and crushed thousands of his enemies , but did so at the expense of his own existence . The anomaly which strikes upon the mind is this—that extent of
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The General Assurance Advocate.
THE GENERAL ASSURANCE ADVOCATE .
30 TH SEPTEMBER , 1849 .
COMBINATION AS DEVELOPED IN ASSURANCE . IN the turmoil which has pervaded the world , and the contests amid which kings and governments have been dashed against peoples , nations warring with nations , classes jarring with classes , ancl capital and labour rudely jostling against each other , all seemed chaotic , wild , confused , and revolutionary . But still one idea presented itself to the
minds of most men who looked earnestly and truthfully on what was going on around them , as a great primary cause of the heartburnings , discontent , contentention , misery , ancl degradation , with which the world of European civilization is sown broadcast . To such seekers ancl lookers for the truth , it is apparent that the foundation evils are social rather than political ; that the masses pressetl
upon by the necessities of their position—placed in the midst of luxury , from which they are debarred—daily and hourly witnesses of splendour , luxury , and ostentation , not only beyond their reach , but beyond their hopes—accumulating in wondrous profusion material wealth and
comfort , but a small portion of which blesses the arid and sterile sphere of poverty—pressed down by wants , many of them , no doubt , artificial , but still stringent and urgent—seeming to feel that civilization , while it debars them from the full enjoyment of their natural powers , offers them at best but an inadequate compensation—that , denying their right to live except by labour , and not affording labour , it thus practically denies
the right to live—that the masses oppressed by these evils , and feeling themselves every day sinking lower into poverty , destitution , ignorance , vice , and crime , are striving blindly to shake off a yoke too heavy for the galled shoulders of humanity any longer to bear . AVe say striving blindly , because , wherever they have risen in tumults , and sought political power hy force of arms , they seem to have fared like the blind
Samson in the heathen temple , who indeed with tremendous power pulled down the building , and crushed thousands of his enemies , but did so at the expense of his own existence . The anomaly which strikes upon the mind is this—that extent of