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Quotation from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney
“Rights without functions are like the shades in Homer which drank blood but scattered trembling at the voice of a man”
The Acquisitive Society, Ch. VII, 'Industry as a Profession', p. 91 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741))
The opening of Chapter VII, comparing functionless property rights to ghosts that need only resolution to dispel.
Citation: "Rights without functions are like the shades in Homer which drank blood but scattered trembling at the voice of a man" — R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society, Ch. VII, 'Industry as a Profession', p. 91 (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, New York, 1920 (Project Gutenberg #33741)). (id tawney-the-acquisitive-society-q6)
