Excerpt from The Plutocrat
The conditions that pertain in the affairs of people today in this country and the world at large, for that matter, are such as engenders confusion and discord more than anything else.
The unrest that pervades society is a menace to peace and good order, in the social, political, industrial and economic spheres as well as in the religions also, but the latter we leave to the pious and socalled sedate of mankind.
Let us, however, look closely at some of the conditions that agitate all avenues of society and the social spheres generally, no less in the labor world than in the commercial world as in others.
We are too prone, when we speak of society, to indicate by the term that class of people who call themselves aristocratic, and to forget the more significant and comprehensive meaning of the term. Society implies a whole, and not a part in any sense, though we may, and often do, speak of society in allusion to a part, or even parts of a part, as in the case of secret societies and many others, yet they of necessity are a component part of society properly defined.
We should always go into broader fields, and consider the habits, employments, environments, progress and declines of the people as a whole, and it is in this sense that we prefer to be understood to speak when talking about society; hence we denominate it industrial intelligence, as applied to and by the collective whole or a democratic organism and industrial commonwealth, because industry is not confined to any one branch or part of society, but exercised in all to some extent, as the term may apply to the situation or circumstances.
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