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into opportunities of a good life. Capital must discover 

 that it has duties. LaJDqur^_m}Mfi^n&5j^^ 

 Its conditions must be changed so that it may make men 

 and not destroy them. 



The worksjiop must becqmejyjchool of virtue, as most^ 

 of the old workshops were and as the professions are now._ 

 More masters must care for their men as they care for their_ 

 machines. They must seek inventions that shall induce 

 industry, honesty, thrift, manliness amongst their workers, 

 even as they seek for cheaper and better material for their 

 industry or better methods of dealing with it. 



But, on the other hand, what the masters can do for the 

 men is restricted or enlarged, it is limited, defined by what 

 the men are willing to do for themselves. The enterprise 

 of raising the moral level of these substantial relations 

 amongst which we spend our lives, is a task that demands 

 the co-operation of both sides. The men themselves must 

 become jealous of the good name of their class, and 

 recognize in every thriftless, intemperate, irregular, dis- 

 honest workman the enemy of their good. 



I am quite certain that the care of the master for the 

 man and of the man for the master is a sound principle in 

 economics : I cannot doubt that it is also sound social 

 doctrine. Social relations aremeant to fre moral relations_. 

 I bejie^jtjsj.nscribed in^the very structure both of man 

 and society that they shall find no rest except in__the right, 

 and^nd no true joy or happincss_except in the pursuit^ 

 of it. 



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