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| 72:5.7 Two hundred years ago the [[profit]] [[motive]] was wholly [[dominant]] in [[industry]], but today it is being rapidly displaced by other and higher driving [[forces]]. [[Competition]] is keen on this [[continent]], but much of it has been [[transferred]] from [[industry]] to [[play]], [[skill]], [[scientific]] achievement, and [[intellectual]] [[attainment]]. It is most [[active]] in [[social]] [[service]] and [[governmental]] [[loyalty]]. Among this [[people]] [[public]] [[service]] is rapidly becoming the chief goal of [[ambition]]. The richest man on the [[continent]] works six hours a day in the office of his machine shop and then hastens over to the local branch of the school of [[statesmanship]], where he seeks to [[qualify]] for [[public]] [[service]]. | | 72:5.7 Two hundred years ago the [[profit]] [[motive]] was wholly [[dominant]] in [[industry]], but today it is being rapidly displaced by other and higher driving [[forces]]. [[Competition]] is keen on this [[continent]], but much of it has been [[transferred]] from [[industry]] to [[play]], [[skill]], [[scientific]] achievement, and [[intellectual]] [[attainment]]. It is most [[active]] in [[social]] [[service]] and [[governmental]] [[loyalty]]. Among this [[people]] [[public]] [[service]] is rapidly becoming the chief goal of [[ambition]]. The richest man on the [[continent]] works six hours a day in the office of his machine shop and then hastens over to the local branch of the school of [[statesmanship]], where he seeks to [[qualify]] for [[public]] [[service]]. |
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− | 72:5.8 [[Labor]] is becoming more [[honorable]] on this [[continent]], and all able-bodied [[citizens]] over eighteen work either at [[home]] and on farms, at some recognized [[industry]], on the [[public]] works where the temporarily unemployed are [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorb absorbed], or else in the corps of [[compulsory]] laborers in the mines. | + | 72:5.8 [[Labor]] is becoming more [[honorable]] on this [[continent]], and all able-bodied [[citizens]] over eighteen work either at [[home]] and on farms, at some recognized [[industry]], on the [[public]] works where the temporarily unemployed are [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/absorb absorbed], or else in the corps of [[compulsory]] laborers in the mines. |
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| 72:5.9 These [[people]] are also beginning to foster a new [[form]] of [[social]] [[disgust]]—disgust for both idleness and unearned [[wealth]]. Slowly but certainly they are conquering their [[machines]]. Once they, too, struggled for [[political]] [[liberty]] and subsequently for [[economic]] [[freedom]]. Now are they entering upon the [[enjoyment]] of both while in addition they are beginning to [[appreciate]] their well-earned [[leisure]], which can be [[devoted]] to increased [[self-realization]]. | | 72:5.9 These [[people]] are also beginning to foster a new [[form]] of [[social]] [[disgust]]—disgust for both idleness and unearned [[wealth]]. Slowly but certainly they are conquering their [[machines]]. Once they, too, struggled for [[political]] [[liberty]] and subsequently for [[economic]] [[freedom]]. Now are they entering upon the [[enjoyment]] of both while in addition they are beginning to [[appreciate]] their well-earned [[leisure]], which can be [[devoted]] to increased [[self-realization]]. |
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