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T is less from any inherent depravity or selfishness in men, it may be, that such antagonisms prevail, than from the false system on which society is based, and the modes adopted for doing business.

The Boston Chronotype once said, "Throw a bucket of swill to a drove of swine, and you have the aptest possible illustration (homely though it be) of the present state of society."

Were it not tor the selfish scramble in which men engage, where each is determined to get all he can, instead of being willing to live and let live, it would be comparatively easy for all to get along, and have enough. But where a few are bent on having "the lion's share," then contention and strife are the results, without any assurance of a competency for the future. Thus men, defeat the very objects at which they aim, by their own selfishness, and by clinging to a system which fosters this selfish spirit.

And the difficulties of obtaining the means of living increase year by year, and the prospects become more and more precarious, in proportion as the population increases, and the wealth centres into the hands of the few.