
“The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.”
‘Ancient Law’ (1861) ch. 5.
Speech to the Junior Imperial League (3 May 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), p. 225.
1924
Context: We want to help to better the conditions for our own people. We want to see our people raised, not into a society of State ownership, but into a society in which, increasingly, the individual may become an owner. There is a very famous sentence of Sir Henry Maine's, in which he said that the progress of our civilisation had been of recent centuries a progress on the part of mankind from status to contract. Socialism would bring him back from contract to status.
“The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.”
‘Ancient Law’ (1861) ch. 5.
“reading is at the beginning of the social contract”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)
Source: In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead
Source: 1930s, Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), Ch. 12: Powers and forms of governments
"The Doctrine of Free Will"
1930s, Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (1930)