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futile to advance human progress, we are logically 

 compelled to ask ourselves the next question, 

 "What condition leads towards a minimum of this 

 element of physical force in human relationships?" 

 We can find the solution of this problem most 

 easily, if we turn it around and ask, "What condi- 

 tion leads towards a maximum of force in human 

 relationships?" The reply to this question is 

 Injustice. We find a direct relationship between 

 the amount of injustice of a given social order and 

 the amount of force necessary to maintain that 

 order, whether we consider national injustice, as 

 where a dominant race like that of the governing 

 minority in Austria attempts to suppress the 

 national aspirations of 80% of the Hapsburg 

 Empire by military force; or political injustice, 

 as where an autocratic minority as in Russia and 

 Prussia relies upon the control of military power to 

 maintain its position; or economic injustice, as in 

 Colorado, where machine-guns and mine guards, 

 state militia and federal troops, were necessary to 

 bolster up a wrong industrial system. 



Conversely the more nearly a social structure 

 approaches the condition of justice the less will 

 be the amount of force required to maintain the 

 balance in this society. If then we desire to 

 escape from the wrong path of force, which leads 

 only to destruction, we have only to turn back to 

 the true path of social progress, the path of justice. 

 With the establishment of justice, social, political, 

 international, the necessity for force automatically 



