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Wherever The Industrial System Has Reached Its Second Generation It Is Threatened By Two Mortal Perils. The First Is The Demand By An Organized Proletariat For Sustenance Without Relation To The Product Of Its Labor; A Demand Which Threatens The Very Existence Of Profit (on The Necessary Presumption Of Which Capitalism Reposes). The Second, And Immediately Graver Danger Is That Of A Revolt For The Confiscation Of The Means Of Production.

Every Major Question In History Is A Religious Question. It Has More Effect In Molding Life Than Nationalism Or A Common Language.

Economic Freedom Is In Our Eyes A Good. It Is Among The Highest Of Temporal Goods Because It Is Necessary To The Highest Life Of Society Through The Dignity Of Man And Through The Multiplicity Of His Action, In Which Multiplicity Is Life. Through Well-divided Property Alone Can The Units Of Society React Upon The State. Through It Alone Can A Public Opinion Flourish. Only Where The Bulk Of The Cells Are Healthy Can The Whole Organism Thrive.

To Control The Production Of Wealth Is To Control Human Life Itself. To Refuse Man The Opportunity For The Production Of Wealth Is To Refuse Him The Opportunity For Life; And, In General, The Way In Which The Production Of Wealth Is By Law Permitted Is The Only Way In Which The Citizens Can Legally Exist.

Even If The Wealth And Power Be Well Distributed Throughout A Community, Its Members Will Not Be Happy Unless They Are Inwardly So, And Obviously Where The Distribution Is Bad, Where The Few Have A Vast Superfluity And The Many Are Consumed By Anxiety Or Want, Or Where A Few Controllers Can Exercise Their Will Over The Many, Society Has Failed, Even Though Its Total Wealth And Power Be Increased.