William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist. a Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man
The book William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist. a Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man was written by author Morris, William, 1834-1896 Here you can read free online of William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist. a Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is William Morris: Poet, Artist, Socialist. a Selection From His Writings Together With a Sketch of the Man a good or bad book?
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231 subsistaice, and learned to take an interest and pleasure in handiwork which, done deliberately and thoughtfully, could be made more attractive than machine work. Again, as people freed from the daily terror of starva- tion find out what they really wanted, being no longer compelled by anything but their own needs, they would refuse to produce the mere inanities which are now called luxuries, or the poison and trash now called cheap wares. No one would make plush breeches when there were no... flunkies to wear them, nor would anybody waste his time over making oleomargarine when no one was compelled to abstain from real butter. Adulteration laws are only needed in a society of thieves — and in such a society they are a dead letter. Socialists are often asked how work of the rougher and more repulsive kind could be carried out in the new con- dition of things. To attempt to answer such questions fully or authoritatively would be attempting the impossibility of constructing a scheme of a new society out of the materials of the old, before we knew which of those materials would disappear and which endure through the evolution which is leading us to the great change.
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