ABSTRACT
Looking back, we are startled and horrified at the cruelties which our forbears either ignored or accepted, and at the doctrines by which they justified them. We can trace exactly the points at which economics were perverted by them, and exactly the points at which Christianity was perverted by them so as to secure the support of such authorities for their own privileged position. This was not done consciously, but the mind fastened on such facts (as it always does), or such interpretations of them, as seemed to give countenance to their real love—the love of property and position.
