To this question there have been many discordant answers, and the variance is by no means confined to unbelieving critics.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
The right to fair wages is one thing; the State could not realize it, but it at least represents no unjust aspiration; but the right to an equal dividend of the national income, claimed by utopian socialists, including Mr. Bellamy at the present day, and the right to the full produce of labour claimed by the revolutionary socialists, and meaning, as explained by them, the right to the entire product of labour and capital together, are really rights to unfair wages, and the whole objection to them is that they are at variance with social justice.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
A gentleman following a chemical career he considered as at variance with the natural order.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford