CHAPTER IV 



INEQUALITY, HAPPINESS, AND PROGRESS 



MAN does not live by wealth alone, and progress is 

 not concerned solely with the production and the 

 distribution of it. But the processes involved in 

 the production and distribution of wealth, though 

 far from being coextensive with all social progress, 

 are typical of it. They form, moreover, the sub- 

 ject with regard to which contending politicians The radical 



, r ...... ... politician will 



and reformers practically join issue ; and it is object to the 



mainly because inequality in the possession of dis? n 

 wealth is affirmed to be a permanent and necessary ter . m l Wlth 



* which we 



feature of civilisation, that the conclusions here put familiar. 

 forward will be attacked. 



The objections that will be brought against them 

 will take two forms ; one being the form which will 

 be given them by the radical or socialistic politician ; 

 the other the form which will be given to them by 

 the radical or socialistic theorist. 



The radical or socialistic politician, whether he 

 is journalist or popular orator, will express them by 

 asserting, in a tone of contemptuous irony, that 



