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Title: The Next Step
A Plan for Economic World Federation

Author: Scott Nearing

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THE NEXT STEP

A Plan for Economic World Federation

by

SCOTT NEARING

Author of
_The American Empire_

Ridgewood, New Jersey
Nellie Seeds Nearing
1922

* * * * * *

_By the same author_

WAGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

FINANCING THE WAGE EARNER FAMILY.

REDUCING THE COST OF LIVING.

ANTHRACITE.

POVERTY AND RICHES.

SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT.

SOCIAL RELIGION.

WOMEN AND SOCIAL PROGRESS.
(Collaboration with Nellie Nearing)

THE SUPER RACE.

ELEMENTS OF ECONOMICS.

THE NEW EDUCATION.

ECONOMICS.

COMMUNITY CIVICS.
(Collaboration with Jessie Field)

SOLUTION OF THE CHILD LABOR PROBLEM.

SOCIAL SANITY.

THE AMERICAN EMPIRE.

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Copyright, 1922
All Rights Reserved

Printed in the United States of America

_This book is dedicated to the task of emancipating the human race from
economic servitude_

"The community needs service first, regardless of who gets the profits,
because its life depends on the service it gets."

"Organizing for Work."

H.L. GANTT.

"It is not common language, literature and tradition alone, nor yet
clearly defined or strategic frontiers, that will in the future give
stability to the boundary lines of Europe, but rather such distribution
of its supplies of coal and iron as will prevent any of the great
nations of Europe becoming strong enough to domin