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166 The connections thus traced, parallel to connections already traced, are at once seen to be natural on remembering that militant activities, intrinsically coercive, neccessitatenecessitate [sic] command and obedience, and that therefore, where they predominate, signs of submission are insisted upon; while, conversely, industrial activities, whether exemplified in the relations of employer and employed or of buyer and seller, being carried on under agreement, are intrinsically non-coercive, and there-fore, where they predominate, only fulfillment of contract is insisted upon: whence results decreasing use of the signs of submission.



ET us find a piece of tranquil water and drop a stone into it. What happens?—a most beautiful thing, full of the most precious teachings. The place where the stone fell in is immediately surrounded by what we all recognize as a wave of water traveling outward and



then another is generated, and then another, until at length an exquisite series of concentric waves is seen, all apparently traveling outward