The Servile State

In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He explains that Capitalism emerged from the English Reformation, reached its present form during England's Industrial Revolution, and from there was exported to the rest of the world.

"It was in England that the Industrial System arose. It was in England that all its traditions and habits were formed; and because the England in which it arose was already...