But it is only in a social organism of this form, that the "rights"
administration will find the understanding necessary to a right and
just distribution of wealth. In an economic life, where the claim upon
men's labour is not prescribed by the stresses in single branches of
production, but which has to carry on business with as much as the
"rights-law" allows it, the value of goods will be determined by
what men actually put into it in the way of work. It will not allow
the work men do to be determined by goods-values into whose formation
human welfare and human dignity do not enter. An order of economy such
as this, will not be blind to rights that arise from purely human
relations. Children will have a right to education. The father of a
family will be able to have a higher income than a single man. He will
get his "surplus" through a system instituted by agreement between
all three social organisations. The right to education might be met,
under these arrangements, in the following way. The managing body of
the economic organisation estimates the amount of revenue that can be
given to education, according to the general economic conditions;
and the "rights-state" fixes the rights of individual persons,
according to the spiritual organisation's opinion in each case.
Here again, since we are thinking on lines of reality, this instance
is merely intended to indicate the direction in which such arrangements
might be worked. In detail, it is possible that quite a different sort
of arrangement may be found to be the right thing. But, in any case,
the "right thing" will be found only through all three independent
branches of the body social conjointly, in working together for a
common end. For the purposes of this sketch, the underlying mode
of thought is merely concerned to discover the really practical
thing, (unlike so much to-day that passes for practical),--namely,
a functional division of the body social, such as shall give man a
basis on which to work socially to some purpose.
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