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Excerpt from The Distribution of Wealth: An Address Before the Society of Industrial Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio, October 30, 1919 The world is in a sad state of disorder. Civilized, highly organized society was never in such a state of distress and disorganization as now. There is need for every machine to be kept running, every ship and car moving, and for every person to do his full part to restore normal conditions irr industry and normal supplies of the necessaries and comforts of common consumption. And in the face of this there exists the greatest confusion ever known in industry. We have the most highly developed industrial organiza tion in the world, and our capacity for production is greater than ever before, but we have a state Of feeling pervading industry which not only lowers production but threatens almost a breakdown of the system. We know that a great many people are actively trying to accomplish this end. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.