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out, owing to biological human inequalities which 

 appear to be unendingly recurrent in nature, there 

 are possibilities of much closer and better relations 

 between the more favored and less favored strata 

 than now exist. The initiative, in the effort to gain 

 these better relations, must come largely from the 

 more favored classes, although the organized action of 

 laboring men within recent years has begun to be a 

 potent influence for the insistence on certain kinds 

 of recognition. There are several distinct though 

 closely affiliated forces which, under the influence of 

 broadening and deepening education, will serve, if 

 any will, to secure the improved human relations 

 which are so greatly needed, if the most intelligent 

 and sympathetic thought of the relatively few is to 

 be utilized in its most obvious and needed human 

 application. First, the gradual utilization of the nat- 

 ural resources of countries will in time bring them 

 into a state of approximate equilibrium and check 

 their expansion in raw material. With this check in 

 expansion must come a corresponding curb to the 

 opportunities of able and venturesome promoters of 

 industries. The lines of railways will have become 

 established so as to require only minor extensions; 

 the coal and iron mines will have become well known 

 and their output carefully controlled; the banking 

 facilities existent will have met the demands of busi- 

 ness and will not widely vary in scope, at least within 

 their own countries. Secondly, men of aggressive 

 type whose ability has had full play during the ex- 



