Excerpt from Labour and the New World With the increase in the productive power Of labour, due to the discovery and use of steam power, followed by machine invention and the opening up of the, resources of the whole world, the aggregate production at the Outbreak Of war was large enough, under a just system of distribution, to have provided a reasonable sufficiency Of material necessaries and comforts, Of leisure and of rational enjoyment for everybody. The increased command Of natural forces applied to production opened up vast possibilities for lightening human toil, for a wider diffusion of com fort, and for a general advance Of civilization. These possibilities have not been employed to secure that purpose; but, on, the contrary, have resulted in wider extremes of riches and poverty than existed when man's command Of production was infinitely smaller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.