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Quotation from Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
“The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the workingmen are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict.”
Rerum Novarum, The Church's remedy, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903)
Leo introduces the image of capital and labor as members of one body that need each other.
Citation: "The great mistake made in regard to the matter now under consideration is to take up with the notion that class is naturally hostile to class, and that the wealthy and the workingmen are intended by nature to live in mutual conflict." — Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, The Church's remedy, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903). (id rerum-novarum-q4)
Portrait: Papa Leone XIII (3x4 cropped), Braun et Compagnie, Public domain.
