The Mercantile Agencies Against Commerce: Are We a Nation of Swindlers and Liars? (Classic Reprint) - nouveau livre

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IT has been the favorite, if not the accepted, theory of writers on sociology and political science, that the ideal society and its institutions would be characterized by simplicity of structure and unity of design. Con trary to the prevailing law of higher organisms in the natural world, the social structure has been considered as destined to evidence its most perfect development by the want of complexity in its final analysis. Whether or not that is the true and ultimate destiny of social organization and civil government, it is clearly true that the conditions of modern society are far from realizing that consummation. The fundamental requi site of all simplified social and political organization is the supremacy of Individualism; whereas, present conditions antagonize every essential attribute of per sonal sovereignty and minimize the influence, duties and obligations of the individual man.

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