But it is impossible that men should have reared this tremendous artifice in vain.
It stuns the intellect.

To acknowledge so crushing a defeat is to give the death-blow to striving and progress.
One other alternative, and one other only, presents itself.

_Civilisation must be compelled to better the lot of the average men_.

This accepted, it becomes at once a question of business management.

Things profitable must be continued; things unprofitable must be eliminated.