The claims of labour : An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed / [by Sir Arthur Helps].

  • Helps, Arthur, Sir, 1813-1875.
Date:
1844
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Credit: The claims of labour : An essay on the duties of the employers to the employed / [by Sir Arthur Helps]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ the one, as every thing is a total or substantive in itself; « the other, as it is a part or member of a greater body; “ whereof the latter is in degree the greater and the worthier, “ because it tendeth to the conservation of a more general “ form. Therefore we see the iron in particular sympathy “ moveth to the loadstone; but yet if it exceed a certain « quantity, it forsaketh the affection to the loadstone, and “ like a good patriot moveth to the earth, which is the re- ii gion and country of massy bodies. 1 his double nature of “ good, and the comparative thereof, is much more engraven “ Upon man, if he degenerate not; unto whom the conser- “ vation of duty to the public ought to be much more precious “ than the conservation of life and being: according to that “ memorable speech of Pompeius Magnus, when being in “ commission of purveyance for a famine at Rome, and “ being dissuaded with great vehemency and instance by his “ friends about him, that he should not hazard himself to sea “ in an extremity of weather, he said only to them, ‘ Ne- cesse est ut earn, non ut vivam. But it may be truly “ affirmed that there was never any philosophy, religion, or tl other discipline, which did so plainly and highly exalt the “ good which is communicative, and depress the good which « is private and particular, as the Holy Faith; well declaring, “ that it was the same God that gave the Christian law to “ men, who gave those laws of nature to inanimate crea- “ tures that we spoke of before.” Bacon’s Advancement of Learning. u And well may masters consider how easie a transposition “ it had been for God, to have made him to mount into the “ saddle that holds the stirrup; and him to sit down at the “ table, who stands by with a trencher.” Fuller’s Holy State.