And why?
Because society, I repeat, whatever be the number of its subjects, is forced to pay them all the same wages, since she pays them only in their own products.

Only, on the hypothesis just made, inasmuch as the strong cannot be prevented from using all their advantages, the inconveniences of natural inequality would reappear in the very bosom of social equality.

But the land, considering the productive power of its inhabitants and their ability to multiply, is very limited; further, by the immense variety of products and the extreme division of labor, the social task is made easy of accomplishment.

Now, through this limitation of things producible, and through the ease of producing them, the law of absolute equality takes effect.
Yes, life is a struggle.

But this struggle is not between man and man--it is between man and Nature; and it is each one's duty to take his share in it.