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Truly, it is these secondary consequences, these moral and social reactions of economic equality to create a noble atmosphere of human intercourse, that, after all, have been the greatest contribution which the principle has made to human happiness.

— Edward Bellamy Equality (1897)

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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.

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If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

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Manual labor meant association with a rude, coarse, and ignorant class of people. There is no such class now.

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