In a red sunsetting the
glow is so powerful that green hills, white houses, and blue waters,
touched by its light, assume a ruddy color, partly a local color, and
partly a reflected light from the sun. Now in the same way, what is
most powerful in society multiplies images and shadows of itself, and
produces harmonies with itself which are yet not identities. It is by a
predominating idea that nations achieve the practical unity of their
citizens, and national progress becomes possible. In the future
structure of society I have no doubt there will be elements to which the
socialist, the syndicalist, the capitalist, and the individualist will
have contributed. By degrees it will be discovered what enterprises are
best directed by the State, by municipalities, by groups, or by
individuals. But if the idea of democratic control is predominant,
those enterprises which are otherwise directed will yet meet the
prevalent mood by adopting the ideas of the treatment of the workers
enforced in democratically controlled enterprises, and will in every
respect, except control, make their standards equal.
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