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Thus, millions of men have lost both the opportunity for real physical exertion, the incentive to work in the joyous competition of skill, and finally the reward of work in the sense of achievement.
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Beck reflects on the loss of meaningful work and achievement in modern society.
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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.
The tendency of group morality to standardize man--and thus reduce all men to the dead level of an average mediocrity--is one that the law should combat.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
Of this spirit one of the noblest expressions is the Constitution of the United States.
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