The System Of Nature, Of Which Man

It Is Doubly Chimerical To Build Peace On Economic Foundations Which, In Turn, Rest On The Systematic Cultivation Of Greed And Envy, The Very Forces Which Drive Men Into Conflict.

To Organize Work In Such A Manner That It Becomes Meaningless, Boring, Stultifying, Or Nerve-racking For The Worker Would Be Little Short Of Criminal; It Would Indicate A Greater Concern With Goods Than With People, An Evil Lack Of Compassion And A Soul-destroying Degree Of Attachment To The Most Primitive Side Of This Worldly Existence.

I Started By Saying That One Of The Most Fateful Errors Of Our Age Is The Belief That The Problem Of Production Has Been Solved. This Illusion, I Suggested, Is Mainly Due To Our Inability To Recognize That The Modern Industrial System, With All Its Intellectual Sophistication, Consumes The Very Basis On Which Is Has Been Erected. To Use The Language Of The Economist, It Lives On Irreplaceable Capital Which It Cheerfully Treats As Income.

To Describe An Animal As A Physico-chemical System Of Extreme Complexityis No Doubt Perfectly Correct, Except That It Misses Out On The Animalness Of The Animal.

Perhaps We Cannot Raise The Winds. But Each Of Us Can Put Up The Sail, So That When The Wind Comes We Can Catch It.