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The Inhumanity of Socialism by Edward Francis Adams
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But intellects vary in character and usefulness, and let us try by
differentiation and elimination to isolate and consider those particular
classes of intellect whose activities bear most directly on the
questions raised by Socialistic theory. The chiefs are the devotees of
pure science - the Galileos, the Newtons, the Pasteurs, the Faradays,
the Kelvins, and the innumerable company of those like them, many known
but most unknown, who spend their days and nights in the search for
truth. They deserve and get the greatest of rewards which is the respect
and admiration of their fellowman. As for material things, they desire
and get very little. Following them are the magnates of applied science,
the Watts, the Stephensons, the Bells, the Edisons, and their like, who
apply to beneficial use the discoveries of the great lights of pure
science often with prodigious material profit to themselves. The patent
offices know them all, big and little. They perform a magnificent
service, are highly esteemed in their day and generation and their
material rewards are great. And upon the whole the world does not grudge
them what they get.

But there are others. Next after the magnates of applied science in
public estimation, but of equal economic importance, I would place the
Captains of Industry. Without their grasp of human necessity and desire
and their organizing and directing ability, Labor would grope blindly in
the dark by wasteful methods to the production of insufficient
quantities of undesirable products. The Marxian[2] conception of an
economic surplus wrongfully withheld from Labor which produces it is the
disordered fancy of a fine intellect hopelessly warped by the
contemplation of human misery and humanitarian sympathy with human
distress. All economic discussion is worthless if tainted by human
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