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Excerpt from Social Growth and Stability: A Consideration of the Factors of Modern Society and Their Relation to the Character of the Coming State In one way and another mankind has always been seeking happiness. The primitive man may have found his chief satisfaction in appeased hunger, rest, and dominion over animals of field and forest. With a somewhat better development, it is probable that the ambition for dominion on the part of the Strong over the weak resulted in outrage and oppression, and that for mutual pro tection tribal relations were established. Out of these rude primitive compacts, society has grown. From the beginning its chief purpose has been to extort justice from power. The conict between Opposing interests has never ceased; the strong have asserted the right divine to appropriate the labor of others. This claim has been con tested by those whose interests have been threat ened. The individualism of the earlier centuries was absolute and despotic; this weakened and finally disappeared among the Western nations. 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.