If the merchant or the manufacturer, the lawyer or the clerk, never meets the mechanic or the handicraftsman, save on rare occasions, when the meeting may be of a hostile kind, each side feels that the other is alien and naturally antagonistic.
In an address on social divisions, Roosevelt explains how a lack of interaction between different occupations fosters feelings of alienation and antagonism.
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