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Identifier: williammorrishis00warw (find matches)
Title: William Morris, his homes and haunts
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Warwick, Frances Evelyn Maynard Greville, Countess of, 1861-1933
Subjects: Morris, William, 1834-1896 Authors, English
Publisher: New York : Dodge Publishing company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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he thirteenth century, for example, into thesystem of the nineteenth century. He saw that oneroot evil was the growth of monopolies under the con-trol of a few wealthy men; and political economy taughthim that the only radical remedy for monopoly wasSocialism. So Morris became a Socialist. Perhaps themost all-round man, in general culture, in Europe,became one of its most revolutionary politicians. But it will be better to let William Morris speak ofhis own conversion, for he once wrote an article withjfthe title How I became a Socialist. It contains the following passage: **A man of my disposition, carelessof metaphysics and religion as well as of scientific analysis,but with a deep love of the earth and the life on it, anda passion for the history of the past of mankind. Thinkof it I Was it all to end in a country house on the topof a cinder heap, with Podsnaps drawing-room in theofRng and a Whig Committee deahng out champagneto the rich and margarine to the poor in such conv enient
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HIS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY 65 proportions as would make all men contented together,though the pleasure of the eyes was gone from the world,and the place of Homer was to be taken by Huxley ?. . . the consciousness of revolution stirring amidst ourhateful modern society prevented me, luckier than manyothers of artistic perceptions, from crystallising into amere railer against progress on the one hand and on theother from wasting time and energy in any of thenumerous schemes by which the quasi-artistic of themiddle classes hope to make art grow when it hasno longer any root, and thus I became a practicalSocialist?/ In a lecture on Art and Socialism delivered inLeicester in 1884, he described his own capitalist classvery pungently: We of the rich and well-to-do classes. . . gather wealth by trading on the hard necessity ofour fellows, and then we give dribblets of it away tothose of them who in one way or another cry out loudestto us. Our Poor Laws, our Hospitals, our Charities,organised or un

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