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However that may be, in any case now as then there are people who have much work and little wealth living beside other people who have much wealth and little work. HOWEVER THAT MAY BE IN ANY CASE NOW AS THEN THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MUCH WORK AND LITTLE WEALTH LIVING BESIDE OTHER PEOPLE WHO HAVE MUCH WEALTH AND LITTLE WORK
rding to the difference of unchangeable natural surroundings, but over the question, shall it be mastership or fellowship? Let us see then what is the condition of society under the last development of mastership, the commercial system, which has taken the place of the Feudal system. Like all other systems of society, it is founded on the necessity of man conquering his subsistence from Nature by labour, and also, like most other systems that we know of, it presupposes the unequal distribution of labour among different classes of society, and the unequal distribution of the results of that labour: it does not differ in that respect from the system which it supplanted; it has only altered the method whereby that unequal distribution should be arranged. There are still rich people and poor people amongst us, as there were in the Middle Ages; nay, there is no doubt that, relatively at least to the sum of wealth existing, the rich are richer and the poor are poorer now than they were then. H WILL SURELY VARY ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENCE OF UNCHANGEABLE NATURAL SURROUNDINGS BUT OVER THE QUESTION SHALL IT BE MASTERSHIP OR FELLOWSHIP LET US SEE THEN WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF SOCIETY UNDER THE LAST DEVELOPMENT OF MASTERSHIP THE COMMERCIAL SYSTEM WHICH HAS TAKEN THE PLACE OF THE FEUDAL SYSTEM LIKE ALL OTHER SYSTEMS OF SOCIETY IT IS FOUNDED ON THE NECESSITY OF MAN CONQUERING HIS SUBSISTENCE FROM NATURE BY LABOR AND ALSO LIKE MOST OTHER SYSTEMS THAT WE KNOW OF IT PRESUPPOSES THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF LABOR AMONG DIFFERENT CLASSES OF SOCIETY AND THE UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE RESULTS OF THAT LABOR IT DOES NOT DIFFER IN THAT RESPECT FROM THE SYSTEM WHICH IT SUPPLANTED IT HAS ONLY ALTERED THE METHOD WHEREBY THAT UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION SHOULD BE ARRANGED THERE ARE STILL RICH PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE AMONGST US AS THERE WERE IN THE MIDDLE AGES NAY THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT RELATIVELY AT LEAST TO THE SUM OF WEALTH EXISTING THE RICH ARE RICHER AND THE POOR ARE POORER NOW THAN THEY WERE THEN
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