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far as to impede their own multiplication, they will carry 

 them far enough to mitigate the ill-fortunes of the worse with 

 out helping them to multiply. 



568. Otherwise regarded, this system under which the 

 efforts of each bring neither more nor less than their natural 

 returns, is the system of contract. 



We have seen that the regime of status is in all ways 

 proper to the militant type. It is the concomitant of that 

 graduated subordination by which the combined action of a 

 fighting body is achieved, and which must pervade the fighting 

 society at large to insure its corporate action. Under this 

 regime, the relation between labour and produce is traversed 

 by authority. As in the army, the food, clothing, &c., received 

 by each soldier are not direct returns for work done, but are 

 arbitrarily apportioned, while duties are arbitrarily enforced ; 

 so throughout the rest of the militant society, the superior 

 dictates the labour and assigns such share of the returns as 

 he pleases. But as, with declining militancy and growing 

 industrialism, the power and range of authority decrease 

 while uncontrolled action increases, the relation of contract 

 becomes general ; and in the fully-developed industrial type 

 it becomes universal. 



Under this universal relation of contract when equitably 

 administered, there arises that adjustment of benefit to effort 

 which the arrangements of the industrial society have to 

 achieve. If each as producer, distributor, manager, adviser, 

 teacher, or aider of other kind, obtains from his fellows such 

 payment for his service as its value, determined by the 

 demand, warrants; then there results that correct appor 

 tioning of reward to merit which ensures the prosperity of 

 the superior. 



569. Again changing the point of view, we see that 

 whereas public control in the militant type is both positively 

 regulative and negatively regulative, in the industrial type it 

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