An Englishman Looks at the World

THE NORMAL SOCIAL LIFE

produces an increasing surplus of energy and opportunity, more particularly under modern conditions of scientific organisation and power production; and this through the operation of rent and of usury tends to

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(a) release and (b) expropriate

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an increasing proportion of the population to become:

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(a) A LEISURE CLASS and (b) A LABOUR CLASS

under no urgent compulsion divorced from the land and to work living upon uncertain wages

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| | which may degenerate degenerate | |

| | into a waster class into a sweated, | |

| | \ overworked, | |

| | \ violently | |

| | \ resentful | |

| | \ and destructive | |

| | \ rebel class | |

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| | and produce a | |

| | SOCIAL DEBACLE | |

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| which may become which may become |

| a Governing the controlled |

| Class (with waster regimented |

| elements) in and disciplined |

| an unprogressive Labour Class of |

| Bureaucratic <————————-> an unprogressive |

| SERVILE STATE Bureaucratic |

| SERVILE STATE |

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which may become which may be the whole community rendered needless of the GREAT STATE by a universal working under various compulsory year motives and inducements or so of labour but not constantly, service together nor permanently with a scientific nor unwillingly organisation of production, and so reabsorbed by re-endowment into the Leisure Class of the GREAT STATE