"And there is no reason that the division should not be amicable." "You have already forgotten what we had agreed upon," Ernest replied.
"We agreed that the average man is selfish.

He is the man that is.

You have gone up in the air and are arranging a division between the kind of men that ought to be but are not.

But to return to the earth, the workingman, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division.

The capitalist, being selfish, wants all he can get in the division.