Books author - "Edward Bellamy"

the ancient methods of industry madethis possible would delay us too much. I shall only stop now tosay that interest on investments was a species of tax in perpetuityupon the product of those engaged in industry which a personpossessing or inheriting money was able to levy. It must not besupposed that an arrangement which seems so unnatural andpreposterous according to modern notions was never criticized byyour ancestors. It had been the effort of lawgivers and prophetsfrom the earliest ages to