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different rewards proportioned to differences in abilities and 

 skills. In conformity with the basic mammalian pattern of 

 sociality it would give opportunity and encouragement to the 

 superior individual to rise to leadership. Its second main ob- 

 jective would be to make such rules as would strictly limit as 

 to amount and degree and as to duration the fower that any 

 man or sub-group of men could have over the souls or bodies or 

 lives of their fellows, whether political power, economic, social, 

 or any other kind. It would do this at whatever cost of group 

 efficiency, either alleged or real, that might be entailed. It would 

 do this on the ground that freedom to exercise concentrated 

 power is the one kind of liberty that no man or no limited group 

 of men can be entrusted withj there is still too much of the 

 beast left in his- make-up. Concentration of power to control and 

 coerce men is bad in itself, always and everywhere, and without 

 the slightest relation to whether it is used to accomplish ends 

 which either you or I or anybody else regard as good or beauti- 

 ful or wise. Because there would be no concentration of power 

 in this social pattern there would be no economic monopolies, 

 no great trusts, no holding companies. Some men would be 

 richer than others, but no man would be either inordinately 

 rich or terribly poor. With all ancillary aids to the acquisition 

 and retention of power outlawed, no man could exercise more 

 influence over the lives of his fellows than what could tempo- 

 rarily be derived from his true innate superiority as a man. In 

 guarantees of liberty, opportunity, and strictly limited concen- 

 tration of power, coupled with a general condition of plenty, 

 there is reason to hope and to believe that real social security 

 would reside. 



