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Excerpt from The Overland Monthly, Vol. 45: June, 1905
Novelists and agitators, and as pirants for political preferment for the profits, comforts and authority of office, tell us that there is a wide spread and deep - rooted social revo lution in every land, which is true, always has been true and will con tinue to be true so long as there are two or more people on earth. The objective point of every man's en deavor in the world of ¿esh and blood is a condition which insures elegant leisure. Not that he would accept it, if acquired, but the satis faction in knowing that he may en joy it if he wants to is what the striving Is for. It is this striving for that which one would not accept ai ter acquiring the privilege that is the hte which heats the iron which the God of civilization fashions into lad ders for human-kind to climb to higher and still higher levels of at tainment in every avenue of human progress, and the war of the classes supplies the fuel that heats the iron. It is an irrepressible'con ¿ict between the working class and the capitalist class - it is the sudra class struggling to be the merchant class, the merchant class to be the gentry class, the gentry class to be the nobility class, and out of this comes only good, albeit all swing the Cainish club. It must be so by the law of being, and could not be otherwise unless the human family were reduced to two persons and one of them an idiot, but the sane one would himself become insane, for of the friction of competition is born mental Vigor.
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