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scribe to these doctrines, are in practice chiefly employed in con- 

 sidering to what extent they shall be violated. He further pointed 

 out the fact that the theories now prevailing became popular at a 

 time when government was unpopular, which is not now the case, 

 the latter having become representative in form. Former attempts 

 at government regulation were impracticable, because they sought 

 to control opinion. The form of control now exercised is of a 

 very different kind, and is practicable and effective. He showed 

 that the natural evolution of industry was legitimate and harmless 

 so long as it was confined, as it must necessarily be at first, to sim- 

 ple differentiation, but when the differentiated parts commenced 

 to become integrated, there arose grave social evils. He was not 

 hostile to corporations, but held that they were the instruments 

 through which nearly all the operations of society would eventually 

 be performed. But they require regulation, and he thought that 

 the principal work of legislation would ultimately be the adjust- 

 ment of the relations of corporations to the public and to each 

 other. Government has developed from its primary condition — the 

 family. Feudalism was the transitio'n stage from kinship govern- 

 ment to property government. Modern civilized society is based 

 on property, the unit being the individual. He believed that the 

 social unit will eventually be a business corporation, and that there 

 will be a hierarchy of corporations, the highest of which will 

 embrace all the rest and constitute the government. The basis of 

 society will then cease to be property, and will become industry. 



Dr. Rock said that the policy and interests of all nations seemed 

 to be growing more and more uniform, and he thought that this 

 tendency was in the direction of an ultimate consolidation of all 

 nations under one government. In South America nearly all 

 industries were under the control of foreign companies and capital- 

 ists, and it was a common saying there that it made little difference 

 how much was produced, the people could not retain any of it, as 

 it all goes to London or some other wealthy foreign mart. Hence 

 the necessity of nations being self-sustaining. 



