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for wages, freely carried on, which characterizes the life of 

 an industrial society, there naturally go exaggerated eulo 

 gies of others and servile depreciations of self; his proposi 

 tion would manifestly be absurd. And the absurdity of 

 this hypothetical proposition serves to bring 1 into view the 

 truth of the actual proposition opposed to it. 



