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Looking Backwards from 2000 to 1887

CHAPTER 6
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No organization of labor was possible when the employing power was divided among hundreds or thousands of individuals and corporations, between which concert of any kind was neither desired, nor indeed feasible.

It constantly happened then that vast numbers who desired to labor could find no opportunity, and on the other hand, those who desired to evade a part or all of their debt could easily do so." "Service, now, I suppose, is compulsory upon all," I suggested.
"It is rather a matter of course than of compulsion," replied Dr.
Leete.

"It is regarded as so absolutely natural and reasonable that the idea of its being compulsory has ceased to be thought of.

He would be thought to be an incredibly contemptible person who should need compulsion in such a case.

Nevertheless, to speak of service being compulsory would be a weak way to state its absolute inevitableness.
Our entire social order is so wholly based upon and deduced from it that if it were conceivable that a man could escape it, he would be left with no possible way to provide for his existence.


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