"
I could hardly resist the temptation at this point of asking Thorwald if
he had not been reading up on the current history of the earth, but I knew
well enough that was not possible, for we had brought no books with us.
And then I did not care to tell Thorwald just yet how near he was coming
to our experience. But I could not endure having the props knocked from
under our social structure without another effort to save it. So I said:
"But were not the great majority of business men honest, and were not
these instances that you have cited extreme cases?"
"They were the natural results of a bad system. A great many men were as
honest as their environment would permit, and they tried to convince
themselves that they were not responsible for the environment."
"Were they?" I asked eagerly.
"When they at last discovered that they were, then began a radical change.
I am not exaggerating the evils of the times. I am merely setting them
forth to show you how our race has improved with its maturity.
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