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Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887

CHAPTER 6
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Nowadays, on the contrary, society is so constituted that there is absolutely no way in which an official, however ill-disposed, could possibly make any profit for himself or any one else by a misuse of his power.

Let him be as bad an official as you please, he cannot be a corrupt one.

There is no motive to be.

The social system no longer offers a premium on dishonesty.

But these are matters which you can only understand as you come, with time, to know us better." "But you have not yet told me how you have settled the labor problem.
It is the problem of capital which we have been discussing," I said.
"After the nation had assumed conduct of the mills, machinery, railroads, farms, mines, and capital in general of the country, the labor question still remained.


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