Industry And Progress

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One hundred years ago the population of 1910 could not have lived. An Oriental legend tells of a man of great learning who, able by incantation to compel inanimate ob- jects to work, ordered a stick to bring him water. Now it happened that he was ignorant of the words which would revoke the order to a stick engaged in bringing water. When the amount of water produced began to look dangerous, he chopped the stick in several pieces. Each piece then began to bring him as much water as the whole ha...d brought before, and ultimately the magician himself and the whole world in which he lived were destroyed by the forces which he had discovered but only imperfectly controlled. Ac- cording to Chinese philosophers, the powers which we have called into existence must ultimately de- stroy us. In Europe and America also numerous men, including wise ones, have thus pointed with alarm to present or predicted results of mechanical productiveness. Professor Ely says of the com- [64] PRODUCTION petltive system to which much of our inventive- ness has been due : "In its onward march it crushes and grinds to powder human existences bj^ the miUion ; its rubbish has magnitude of tremendous proportions, and this rubbish consists of hu- man beings with minds, hearts and souls — men, good men often; women, and very frequently indeed innocent wo- men, women with precious gifts which ought to be de- veloped for themselves and others ; and little children with all their possibilities, " Although the laborer Is better off than he used to be, the tragedy still is bitter.

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