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Home of the Socialist Societies of Ghent
The Industrial Republic
A Study of the America of Ten Years Hence
INTRODUCTION
The thought of the time has familiarisedus with the evolutionary view of things; weunderstand that life is the product of aninner impulse, labouring to embody itselfin the world of sense; and that the productis always changing—that there is nothingpermanent save the principles and laws inaccordance with which development goeson. We understand that the universe ofthings was evolved by slow stages into whatit is to-day, that all life has come into beingin the same way. We have traced thisprocess in the far-distant suns and in thestrata of the earth; we have traced it in thevegetables and in the animals, in the seedand in the embryo; we have traced it inall of man’s activities, his ways of thinkingand acting, of eating and dressing and workingand fighting and praying.
This book is an attempt to interpret inthe light of evolutionary science the socialproblem of our present world; to considerAmerican institutions as they exist at thishour—what forces are now at work withinthem, and what changes they are likelyto produce. The subject-matter dealt withis not abstract speculation, but rather the...