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by many individuals, employed in diversified, spe- 

 cialized, productive labors, must be if not absolutely 

 thwarted at least fearfully hindered, if their admin- 

 istration is dominated by the unscrupulously selfish 

 purpose of a few to convert the opportunities which 

 such occasions invariably create, into means for 

 their own aggrandizement, undisturbed by the 

 injury, injustice, and suffering which this inflicts 

 directly on those honestly engaged in the work and 

 indirectly on the welfare and progress of all man- 

 kind? 



In almost all past times the "wolf in sheep's 

 clothes," "the mailed fist in the velvet glove," have 

 prevailed over simple honesty, gentleness, patiently 

 productive industry, genius, and altruistic heroism. 

 To resume the argument : Since humanity can con- 

 trol the inanimate forces and resources of nature, 

 since it exercises an easy and unchallenged suprema- 

 cy over all its former brute enemies and competitors 

 and has done this ever since the beginning of the 

 neolithic age, therefore there is not now, nor has 

 there been in the human race since the neolithic 

 age, any such natural struggle for existence as 

 exists among brutes below man. Our race has risen 

 superior to it. 



But the predominance of the false type in the 

 race, its unjust appropriation by trick or force of 

 the products of others, its readiness to inflict suffer- 

 ing and death, and its inexhaustible resources of 

 deception, have forced an unnatural, artificial, intro- 



