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THE

Struggle For Existence

BY

WALTER THOMAS MILLS, A. M.

"Move upward, working out the beast, and let the ape and tiger die."-Tennyson:
In Memoriam, cxviii.

"It is well if the mass of mankind will obey the laws when made without scrutiniz-
ing too nicely into the reasons for making them."-Blackstone: Commentaries on the
Laws of England, Book II., Ch. I.

"The starting point of the development that gave rise to the wage-labore as well as
to the capitalist was the servitude of the laboret."-Marx: Capital, p. 739.

...

"Since the advent of civilization, the outgrowth of property has been so imm nse
*** that it has become. on the part of the people, an unmanageable power
The time will come, nevertheless, when human intelligence will rise to the mastery over
property, and define the relations of the state to the property it protects, as well as the
obligations and the limits of the rights of its owners."-Morgan: Ancient Society, p. 552.

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