EARTHKEEPING NEWS A NEWSLETTER OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COALITION FOR CHRISTIANITY AND ECOLOGY Volume Fifteen, Number Three May / June 2006 Institutions and Corporations Jean Jacques Rousseau says: "Man is naturally good, but institutions make him bad, so let us overthrow institutions." I say: Man is partly good And partly bad, but corporations, not institutions, make him worse. "An institution," says Emerson, "is the extension of the soul of a man." Institutions are founded to foster the welfare of the masses. Corporations are organized to promote wealth for the few. So let us found smaller and better institutions, and not promote bigger and better corporations. By Peter Maurin (1877-1949), a founder of the Catholic Worker Movement From the Catholic Worker, May 2006 Home     Table of Contents