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Servitude is the law compelling some people to labour for others who are not so compelled
Drawn from what Hilaire Belloc said
What Hilaire Belloc actually said
- Hilaire Belloc Anglo-French writer and historian (1870 to 1953)
Its test is, I repeat, the withdrawal from a man of his free choice to labour or not to labour, here or there, for such and such an object; and the compelling of him by positive law to labour for the advantage of others who do not fall under the same compulsion.
Where this was said
↗The Servile State (1912)gutenberg.org
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