Publisher's Synopsis
Book Excerptrds of exceptional ability.This writer maintains that the money rewards of ability can bedetermined by the opinion of the majority expressing itselfthrough votes and statutes.The writer's typical error. A governing body might enact anylaws, but they would not be obeyed unless consonant with humannature.Laws are obliged to conform to the propensities of human naturewhich it is their office to regulate.Elaborate but unconscious admission of this fact by the writerhere quoted himself.The power of democracy in the economic sphere, its magnitude andits limits. The demands of the minority a counterpart of thoseof the majority.The demand of the great wealth-producer mainly a demand forpower.Testimony of a well-known socialist to the impossibility ofaltering the character of individual demand by outsideinfluence.Read More
