spirit. Nor can they be reinstated by a recourse to settled peace and freedom, since an era of settled peace and freedom would push on the dominance of the machine process and the large business, which break down the system of natural liberty.
When the question is cast up as to what will come of this conflict of institutional forces — called the Social Problem — it is commonly made
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a question of remedies: What can be done to save civilized mankind from the vulgarization and disintegration wrought by the machine industry ?
Now, business enterprise and the machine process i are the two prime movers in modem culture ; and \ the only recourse that holds a promise of being effective, therefore, is a recourse to the workings / of business traffic. And this is a question, not of what is conceivably, ideally, idyllically possible for the business community to do if