ellauri110.html on line 147: On the other hand, Swift was profoundly mistrustful of attempts at reason that resulted in either hubris (for example, the Projectors satirised in A Tale of a Tub or in Book III of Gulliver's Travels) or immorality (such as the speaker of A Modest Proposal, who offers an entirely logical and wholly immoral proposal for cannibalism). The Houyhnhnms embody both the good and the bad side of reason, for they have the pure language Swift wished for and the amorally rational approach to solving the problems of humanity (Yahoos); the extirpation of the Yahoo population by the horses is very like the speaker of A Modest Proposal.
ellauri145.html on line 93: Jonathan Swift: Directions to Servants, A Modest Proposal, Meditation Upon a Broomstick; a few aphorisms;
ellauri164.html on line 212: Berkeleyn saarnat selittivät siirtokuntalaisille, miksi kristinusko salli orjuuden ja miksi orjista tuli tehdä kastettuja kristittyjä: ”Olisi hyödyksi heille [orjien isännille], että heillä olisi orjia jotka kunnioittavat kaikissa asioissa isäntiään lihan mukaan, ei silmänpalvonnalla kuten mielistelijät, vaan sydämen yksinäisyydessä, Jumalaa peläten; että evankeliumin vapaus käsittää maallisen orjuuden; ja että heidän orjistaan tulee vain parempia orjia tulemalla kristityiksi” (Berkeley, Proposal, 347. Saarna Newportissa lokakuussa 1729).
ellauri196.html on line 631: Lewis argued that the AFL was too heavily oriented toward traditional craftsmen, and was overlooking the opportunity to organize millions of semiskilled workers, especially those in industrial factories that made automobiles, rubber, glass and steel. In 1935 Lewis led the dissenting unions in forming a new Congress for Industrial Organization (CIO) within the AFL. Both the new CIO industrial unions, and the older AFL crafts unions grew rapidly after 1935. In 1936 union members enthusiastically supported Roosevelt's landslide reelection. Proposals for the creation of an independent labor party were rejected.
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