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with society at large; better a change in the social structure, caused by
an awakened conscience, than a state of peace founded on wrong principles.
Our history proves that no particular plan of society is necessary to the
world and that no order based on selfishness or injustice can long endure.
But do not imagine such changes were easy or swift in accomplishment. They
came, not by violence nor by the device of crafty men, but only through
the universal betterment of the race, whereby a state of things that had
been considered good enough, and then endured as the best attainable,
became at last positively wrong and was slowly pushed aside by a growing
sense of right.
"To return to your first question, as to what there was wrong in their way
of doing business, I want to say with emphasis that the essence of the
wrong was in an undue regard for self and an almost total disregard for
the interests of others. There were exceptions to the rule, notably in the
direction of charity and philanthropy and in religious work, but I am
speaking of the mass of the business community.
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