Such, for example, was the position maintained by the Christian Socialists of England thirty years ago-a band of noble patriotic men who strove hard, by word and deed, to bring all classes of the community to a knowledge of their duties, as well as their interests, and to supersede, as far as might be, the system of unlimited competition by a system of universal co-operation.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
The bookseller was beginning to supersede the patron.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Cowper tried unsuccessfully to supersede Pope's Homer; in trying to be simple he became bald; but he also tried most successfully to express with absolute sincerity the simple and deep emotions of an exquisitely tender character.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
