" Commercial competition between nations, which leads to
international rivalry and ill-will, which in their turn breed wars--
these are some of the human significations of these facts. Thus poverty
and war, two great preventable evils, grow on a single stem.
Let us see if a beginning toward a better method cannot be made.
CHAPTER XIII
WHY BE POOR?
Poverty springs from a number of sources, the more important of which
are controllable. So does special privilege. I think it is entirely
feasible to abolish both poverty and special privilege--and there can be
no question but that their abolition is desirable. Both are unnatural,
but it is work, not law, to which we must look for results.
By poverty I mean the lack of reasonably sufficient food, housing, and
clothing for an individual or a family. There will have to be
differences in the grades of sustenance. Men are not equal in mentality
or in physique. Any plan which starts with the assumption that men are
or ought to be equal is unnatural and therefore unworkable.
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