If a man have no
help from his neighbors, he shall never gather an estate of
hundreds and thousands a year. If other men help him to work, then
are those riches his neighbors' as well as his; for they be the
fruits of other men's labors as well as his own. But all rich men
live at ease, feeding and clothing themselves by the labors of
other men, not by their own, which is their shame and not their
nobility; for it is a more blessed thing to give than to receive.
But rich men receive all they have from the laborer's hand, and
what they give, they give away other men's labors, not their own.
Therefore they are not righteous actors in the Earth."
TITLES OF HONOUR.
"But shall not one man have more Titles of Honor than another?
"Yes: As a man goes through offices, he rises to Titles of Honor,
till he comes to the highest nobility, to be a faithful
Commonwealth's Man in a Parliament House. Likewise he who finds out
any secret in Nature shall have a Title of Honor given him, though
he be a young man. But no man shall have any Title of Honor till he
win it by industry, or come to it by age or Office-bearing. Every
man that is fifty years of age shall have respect as a man of honor
from all others that are younger, as is shown hereafter."
OF FAMILY LIFE.
"Shall every man count his neighbour's house as his own, and live
together as one family?
"No; though the Earth and Storehouses be common to every Family,
yet every Family shall live apart as they do; and every man's
house, wife, children and furniture for ornament of his house, or
anything he hath fetched in from the Storehouses, or provided for
the necessary use of his family, is all a propriety unto that
Family, for the peace thereof.
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