282 ANDREW CARNEGIE 



capitalistic conditions, and the narrow grasping employer 

 whose creed is to purchase his labor as he does his materials, 

 paying the price agreed upon and there an end. But this 

 opposition will, we believe, amount to little. It will even 

 speak well for the new idea if it be scouted by the extremists 

 and commended by the mass of men who are on neither dan- 

 gerous edge, but in the middle, where usually lies wisdom. 



Meanwhile, here is the germ of a promising plan offered 

 as a solvent for one of the pressing problems of our age, which 

 may prove capable of development. Human society bears a 

 charmed life. It is immortal and was born with the inherent 

 power or instinct, as a law of its being, to solve all problems 

 finally in the best form, and among these none more surely 

 than that vexed question of our day, the relations between 

 these Siamese twins, which must mutually prosper or mutually 

 decay — capital and labor. 



