The Early Years of Isaac Thomas Hecker (1819-1844)...Catholic University of America Press, 1939 - 257 pages Biography of Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 - December 22, 1888), an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church. |
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Page 97 - Our objects, as you know, are to insure a more natural union between intellectual and manual labor than now exists; to combine the thinker and the worker, as far as possible, in the same individual; to guarantee the highest mental freedom, by providing all with labor, adapted to their tastes and talents, and securing to them the fruits of their industry; to do away the necessity of menial services, by opening the benefits of education and the profits of labor to all...
Page 35 - We declare unqualified hostility to bank notes and paper money as a circulating medium, because gold and silver is the only safe and constitutional currency...
Page 149 - Oh, it is great, and there is no other greatness. To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God ; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier — more blessed, less accursed ! It is work for a God.
Page 13 - And come with your playfellows into the street. Come with a whoop, come with a call, Come with a good will or not at all.
Page 35 - Our legislators are not sufficiently apprised of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him...
Page 159 - This is no man of letters, but a man of ideas. Deep opens below deep in his thought, and for the solution of each new problem he recurs, with new success, to the highest truth, to that which is most generous, most simple, and most powerful ; to that which cannot be comprehended, or overseen, or exhausted. His words come to us like the voices of home out of a far country.
Page 35 - No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him...
Page 35 - The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property, and in their management. Try by this, as a tally, every provision of our Constitution and see if it hangs directly on the will of the people.
Page 35 - We, whose names are hereunto affixed, do associate ourselves, and unite, for the purpose of effecting Constitutional Reform in legislation, and to bring into practice the principles on which the governments of these United States were originally founded. We utterly disclaim any intention or design of instituting any new party, but declare ourselves the original Democratic party, our whole object being political reformation by reviving the landmarks and principles of Democracy.
Page 202 - Church is not national with us, hence it does not meet our wants, nor does it fully understand and sympathize with the experience and dispositions of our people.