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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.
Copyright, 1922
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to the task of emancipating the human race fromeconomic servitude
"The community needs service first, [Pg 6]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 yetclearly defined or strategic frontiers, that will in the future givestability to the boundary lines of Europe, but rather such distributionof its supplies of coal and iron as will prevent any of the greatnations of Europe becoming strong enough to dominate or absorb all theothers."
"The Economic Basis of an Enduring Peace."
C.W. MacFarlane.
"Men cannot exist in their present numbers on the earth without worldco-operation."
"Our Social Heritage."
Graham Wallas.
"The real way, surely, in which to organize the interests of producersis by working out a delimitation of industry, and confiding the care ofits problems to those most concerned with them. This is, in fact, a kindof federalism in which the powers represented are not areas butfunctions."
"Foundations of Sovereignty."
H.J. Laski.
Men progress in proportion as[Pg 7] they are able to fit themselves for life,and to fit life to the