In their corporate capacity, these advanced industrial communities are ceasing to be competitors for the means of life or for the right to live--except in so far as the predatory propensities of their ruling classes keep up the tradition of war and rapine.

These communities are no longer hostile to one another by force of circumstances, other than the circumstances of tradition and temperament.

Their material interests--apart, possibly, from the interests of the collective good fame--are not only no longer incompatible, but the success of any one of the communities unquestionably furthers the fullness of life of any other community in the group, for the present and for an incalculable time to come.

No one of them any longer has any material interest in getting the better of any other.

The same is not true in the same degree as regards individuals and their relations to one another.
The collective interests of any modern community center in industrial efficiency.