or a serious apprehension in those who stand tor law and order. This pecuniarily disfranchised bnainesa population, in its revulidon against nnaasimilated facta, turns lather to some excursion into pragmatic romance, such as Social Settlements, Prohibition, Clean Politics, Single Tax, Arts and Crafta, Neighborhood QnUda, iDsUtiitlonal Church, Cbiiatlaa fkknwi^ New
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I But the machine technology not only trains the I workmen into materialistic iconoclasm, it has also ' a selective effect. Persons endowed with propensities and aptitudes of a materialistic, matter-of-fact kind are drafted into the mechanical employments, and such are also peculiarly available socialistic material. Aptitude for the matteiH»f-fact work of the machine technology means, in a general way, ineptitude for an uncritical acceptance of institutional truths. It is probable, therefore, that the apparent facility with which the mechanical employments (and the material sciences) induce a socialistic or iconoclastic bent is to be set down in part to the fact that the human material in these employments is picked material, peculiarly amen-
Tboogbt, or some aocb cullnnl thimblerig. The nork of the ckpUUQ of lnduBli; In curtailing the rouge of IndividuaJ discretion in boaineaB and in reducing tlie lesaer unilertakeTS to the rank of clsrba ftnd subalterns need not be looked upon as unavoidably furthering the spretid of the Boclailstic bias, except in bo far as the change results in throwing the men affected by it out of the pecuniary or business occupations and subjecting them to the discipline of the mechanical industry. At the most, apparently, the change from an independent t« a dependant bnaineas life serrea to weaken the men's inl«reit In the question of property ; it does not appear that it tiirowa them Into an attitude of