most
eminent Social endeavor to select, within reason, the objects of public
utility to which resulting accumulations should be applied and to
superintend during one's lifetime their application to those purposes.
I might think in this way, and might not, were I an enthusiastic Social
reformer in the heyday of youth, but it appears to me now that at any
rate we shall make most progress toward ultimate universal happiness if
we recognize that out of the increasing strenuousness of our conflict
there is coming constantly increasing comfort and better division
thereof, and if we direct that portion of our energies which we devote
to the service of mankind toward such changes in the direction of
the Social impulse as can be made without impairing the force of the
evolutionary movement, rather than to those which involve the reversal
of the direction of the force with the resulting danger of explosion and
collapse.
[Footnote 4: This was written and originally printed long before the
death of Mr. Morgan, but there is a general feeling that he has left no
successor of his caliber.]
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Here ends The Inhumanity of Socialism, being two papers--The Case
Against Socialism and A Critique of Socialism--By Edward F. Adams.
Published by Paul Elder and Company at their Tomoye Press, in the city
of San Francisco, and seen through the press by John Swart, in the month
of June, Nineteen Hundred & Thirteen
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