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Edward Bellamy (March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a tale set in the distant future of the year 2000. Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of at least 165 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas and working to make them a practical reality.

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When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Desire, Effort, Luxury, Money, Several

Badly off as the men. . . were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Fortunate, Men, Mother, Wife, Wives

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Democracy, Dignity, Individual, Principles, Worth

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

Dazzling, Eye, Forward, Long, Summer, Winter

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

Bread, Firsts, Life, Necessity

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

1857, Boston, Light, Year, Years

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture. . . have simply made us all members of one class.

Class, Culture, Equal, Opportunities, Opportunity, Simply

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

Civilization, Favors, Ideas, School, Trained

An American credit card. . . is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

American, Card, Cards, Europe, Gold, Good

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.

Expect, Friend, Husband, Love, Men, Regret

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

Expression, Men, Organizations, Real, Signs

Your system was liable to periodical convulsions. . . business crises at intervals of five to ten years, which wrecked the industries of the nation.

Convulsions, Crisis, Five, Liable, Wrecked, Years

[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.

Already, Ceased, Ceasing, Home, Perfect, Should Have

Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

Men, Crowds, Satisfied, Crowd, Malodorous

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production.

Competition, Energy, Secret, Selfishness