Excerpt from The Social Law of Labor In other words, if we had no society, we should have neither capital nor labor in the civilized sense which now belongs to those words. What new society there may be, no one can tell us. It is now, it is here in this society, that all the problems, interests, and desires of both Capital and Labor must be unfolded, reconciled, and settled. In every society existing, in every society pos sible under. The present conditions of human civilization, a social law prevails, which controls the holders and users of capital as well as the agents and actors of labor. 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.