Notes on Industrial Conditions Classic Reprint

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Our system of government was diverted from its normal course of development by the accident of our civil war. And we have never returned to the line of natural and healthful evolution which we then abandoned. The habit of employ ing the powers of the general government for everything that could be accomplished by their instrumentality, which our people acquired during the war, prepared the way for an over-development of government and a vast over-produc tion of legislation during the period following the close of the struggle. This powerful impulse toward the abnormal extension of the powers of the national government was accompanied and re-enforced by a general decay and disso lution of the local communities. The energy of the town ship life before the war was not less moral and social than political in its manifestation. A vigorous and decisive pub.

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