CHAPTER XV 



COOPERATION 



THE desire for betterment of conditions 

 has been the moving factor in the ad- 

 vance of the New Earth. On the part of the 

 men of practical science, to whom belongs so 

 large a measure of credit for the development 

 of the New Earth, the effort put forth has 

 been, primarily, for others. On the part of 

 those who till the earth and live upon its 

 bounty, the effort has been indeed for self, but 

 in no wise has selfishness been at the bottom. 

 The advance has been merely the working out 

 of the underlying principles of self-protection, 

 or, better put, a high and noble care for one's 

 own. Naturally, along with the progress of 

 the new period, has come to those who gain 

 their livelihood from the earth, not only a new 

 sense of the dignity and importance of their 

 calling, but a new sense of power. This has 

 manifested itself in a variety of ways, some of 

 them inoperative through lack of united effort, 



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