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What Would Happen To The Individual If All The Functions Of The Body Were Placed Under The Control Of The Consciousness Is What Would Happen To A Nation In Which All Individual Activities Were Directed By Government.

It Is Too Narrow An Understanding Of Production Which Confines It Merely To The Making Of Things. Production Includes Not Merely The Making Of Things, But The Bringing Of Them To The Consumer. The Merchant Or Storekeeper Is Thus As Truly A Producer As Is The Manufacturer, Or Farmer, And His Stock Or Capital Is As Much Devoted To Production As Is Theirs.

The Tolerance Of Wrong Dulls Our Sense Of Its Injustice. Men May Become Accustomed To Theft, Murder, Even To Slavery - That Sum Of All Villainies - So They See No Injustice In It, Yet That Which Is Unjust Is Unjust Still.

Discovery Can Give No Right Of Ownership, For Whatever Is Discovered Must Have Been Already Here To Be Discovered. If A Man Makes A Wheelbarrow, Or A Book, Or A Picture, He Has A Moral Right To That Particular Wheelbarrow, Or Book, Or Picture, But No Right To Ask That Others Be Prevented From Making Similar Things. Such A Prohibition, Though Given For The Purpose Of Stimulating Discovery And Invention, Really In The Long Run Operates As A Check Upon Them.

I Am Firmly Convinced, As I Have Already Said, That To Effect Any Great Social Improvement, It Is Sympathy Rather Than Self-interest, The Sense Of Duty Rather Than The Desire For Self-advancement, That Must Be Appealed To. Envy Is Akin To Admiration, And It Is The Admiration That The Rich And Powerful Excite Which Secures The Perpetuation Of Aristocracies.