Economic development -- Social aspects; Social evolution; Social problems; Work
_Fact and delusion. American advantages and possibilities. Possible
consciousness. Perverted Press. Falsely maintained position. Grade A and
grade G. Soul paradoxes. Old Adam. Arbitrarily opposed “Leisure Class”
and “Working Class.” Parasitism actual and potential. Dead matter in
live body. Sour grapes. Charity an evil. Helplessness of rich man trying
to establish right relation. Furnishing employment, i. e., furnishing
payment. Unhealthy secretions resultant from over-consumption. Law of
private servants. Doctor with a herald. Degraded art. Human value in
work. Painful result of social disconnection in leisure class. Working
Class suffers differently. Higher social position of Working Class. All
human labour collective. False classification. Economic relation of
sexes, result. Effect on child. What he should be taught. The round man
in the square hole. Extended ill effect of malposition in social
organism. Waste of energy, inferior workmanship, deterioration of social
tissue. Progressive mal-nutrition. Genius._
XVI
OUR POSITION TO-DAY
The difference between our real position in social development, and that
maintained in our minds, is very great. It is as if a strong, capable,
rich man suffered from mania, had a delusion that he was a puny, feeble,
evil-minded wretch, and acted like one. Could the delusion be removed,
he would act like what he really was and be happy.
Taking our own country as a type of social progress, what do we find to
be its real conditions? In the first place, it has every material
requisite for health and growth. It occupies a piece of the earth’s
surface big enough and varied enough to supply all the physical elements
of triumphant advance. It has, second, not only a base of the best human
stock, but a large and steady influx of all human stocks; it represents
the blended blood of all races, a world-people truly, prototype of that
cosmopolitan race which will ultimately cover the globe. This gives a
chance for all possible development in stock and manifests it. It allows
also all religions to contribute their best, all arts, all sciences;
every line of special usefulness known to man is known to us.
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