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they have need of the man of brains and power, while he has 

 no need of them, and when tlie machinery has been created 

 whereby the capable man may be surely found, and by proper 

 steps advanced to the conduct of affairs with the same certainty 

 of adequate compensation and security in his position that 

 he finds in competitive business. 



One would indeed be foolish to attempt to predict the final 

 resultants of existing social forces, and much more to prophesy 

 as to possible changes in the nature and direction of the forces 

 themselves which may grow out of the evolution of human 

 nature; but from observed facts we may with confidence infer 

 some things at least as to the immediate future. As frequently 

 intimated in these pages it does not seem to me improb- 

 able that the affairs of mankind will ultimately be trans- 

 acted cooperatively. As has been frequently pointed out, 

 great portions of this business is now so transacted, and 

 the fact that cooperation began among the ablest for their per- 

 sonal enrichment as against the rest of mankind, is good evi- 

 dence of its wisdom and its possibility. It is only necessary that 

 John Smith and John Jones should become as wise and strong 

 as Jay Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt to make cooperation 

 as effective among tl)e Smiths and Joneses as it is now among 

 the railroad magnates; and it is only necessary that there 

 should be reasonable wisdom and ability in the masses, to 

 produce reasonably satisfactory results. 



At present, possibly, that reasonable abilit}^ may not gen- 

 erally exist. It certainly seems to exist in some places, and be 

 absent from others. Mankind, upon the whole, does not seem 

 to be very wise, and yet it is true that the general consensus of 

 opinion in civilized countries agrees very well with the 

 doctrines of philosophy. The humanity which poets exalt^ 

 and enthusiasts die for sometimes, seems to exist largely in 

 imagination. Whoever deals in the concrete with the atoms 

 of humanity finds in them much that does not resemble the 

 ideal. Here and there a pure and lofty soul is found buried 

 under the feet of the struggling masses, and is held up by the 

 poet as the exemplar of humanity. He is not. At the same 

 time, when we remember that descendants of the wily savage, 



