Foreword

FOREWORD ''This Bread. Is Mine" breathes the· spirit of freedom. It is based upon truths of great importance. Upon them are based our individual and personal rights and freedoms. Our progress - spiritual as well as material-could not occur without those rights and freedoms. Robert LeFevre has studied socialisms - "Christian" socialism, "scientific" socialism and other socialisms. His treatment of "Christian" socialism - now in vogue in many churches - is the best I have seen. "This Bread Is Mine" has excellent predecessors. In his "Wealth of Nations" (1776) Adam Smith wrote, "The property which every man has in his own labour ... is the most sacred and inviolable." LeFevre reasons rigorously from his facts and assumptions to definite conclusions. The work is almost Euclidean. The reader need not go all the way with the author to enjoy his ~uidance and benefit from it. The author shows us that, in government, "there is nothing new, there is only that which has been forgotten."

-JAY MORRISON Seattle, Washington AUTHOR'S NOTE: The most remarkable thing in the world is the individual human being. No possible combination of human beings is quite so unique or so fascinating as the nature and characteristics of ONE SINGLE PERSON. For a number of centuries, scholars have interested themselves in the group activities of human beings. The result is an over-emphasis on groups and a corresponding under-em phasis on the importance of the single unit of the human race. Thus, in modem times, we find an active and popular philosophy of "socialism" with little in the way of an active and popular philosophy of individualism. It is in the hopes of making some small contribution toward such a philosophy that this book has been written.