On the contrary, the whole history of the mechanical era is a persistent struggle for more pay and less work, and to-day it has culminated in world-wide ruin; for there is not a nation in civilization which is not now in the throes of economic distress, and many of them are on the verge of ruin.
Beck critiques the mechanical era's focus on pay over productivity, linking it to economic distress.
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It must champion the human soul in its God-given right to exercise freely the faculties of mind and body.
Under the American Constitution, they are part of the fundamental law, and, as such, enforceable by judges sworn to defend the integrity of the individual as fully as the integrity of the State.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
It did not believe that the State was omnipotent or infallible, and yet it proclaimed its authority within wise and just limits.
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