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How Man Obtains Control over Nature. 



With the high development of the power of association in advancing 

 communities, the forces of nature are more and more harnessed into tlie 

 uses of man, taking the place of human bone and muscle, and even of 

 the bone and muscle of animals, three tons of coal representing the labor 

 of a man for his entire life. 



Thus, while the animal force expended in the conversion of raw prod- 

 ucts into finished commodities decreases in proportion to the total volume 

 of conversion, the money cost of that conversion also decreases. At the 

 same time raw products, including land and labor which before had no 

 value, being now utilized, acquire value. So, by a beautiful and com- 

 pensating law, land, labor and other raw products rise and finished com- 

 modities fall. The laborer thus, by virtue of the Master's law of distri- 

 bution, obtains a larger proportion of a larger yield, and acquires growing 

 freedom and independence. With these advances, man is steadily obtain- 

 ing the power to call to his aid belter and more efficient tools, among 

 which none is more important than land. At first weak, with but little 

 power of association, he is able only to cultivate the light, sandy soils 

 and those at the heads of rivers or the dry and slightly wooded ones 

 on the sides of the hills. Only as he is able to command the services of 

 his fellow-men, is it that he obtains power to cope with the wet, rich and 

 heavily timbered lands of the valleys, reeking with malaria and requiring 

 drainage. 



The Movements of Money. 



Having considered the effects of the instrument of association on asso- 

 ciation, let us now see how association affects the movements of the 

 instrument itself 



Money leaves those places where there is no diversification of employ- 

 ments, and where money is scarce and interest high ; where laud, labor 

 and other raw materials are cheap, and where finished commodities are 

 dear. It goes to those places where industries are diversified, and where 

 money is plenty, where bank-credit is large in volume, and interest is 

 low, where land, labor and other raw materials, being utilized, are high, 

 and where finished commodities, through the intervention of brains, 

 chemistry, electricity, steam and machinery, are, as well as interest, low. 

 In a word, money travels from those places in which the power of asso- 

 ciation is not developed to those in which it is in the highest degree 

 developed. Thus with the growth of the power of association, wealth, 

 freedom, contentment, harmony and civilization are established, society 

 assuming an ever-broadening base, with a stability which finally elimi- 

 nates discontent and lawlessness. 



The Great and Supreme Law of Association. 



Hold up ihe law of association among men, and view it from any of its 

 countless sides, and the more closely it is studied the more it shows itself 



