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102 PROBLEMS CONFRONTING RUSSIA
cumstances of his life permit. Economic centralisation and
the division of labour in great industrial centres have resulted
in the lives of millions becoming atrophied, reducing a man’s
mental and moral outlook, and converting him into a
soulless machine. Overcrowded masses herded together in
the life of large towns are physically and morally unhealthy,
breeding racial degeneration, involving a decline in the
birth-rate and compromising individual happiness. The
various prominent inventions which have given to humanity
facilities for promoting home comforts, in providing clothing
and all the necessities of life, even the possibility of enjoying
artistic productions at home, have made man independent
of towns. It is evident that decentralisation and
home-production of the necessities of life best assure economic
freedom and a satisfactory existence to each and all who
are willing to pay the price in personal endeavour.
Evolution, not revolution, is needed. A fair life start should be
given to each and all, a proper differentiation made in
individual capacity and merit, a just reward meted out for
manual as well as intellectual labour, a greater personal
freedom assured by means of the individual production in
the necessities of life and the possibility of leading a
well-regulated existence in healthy surroundings for evety
worker—such is the progress demanded by present-day
civilisation.
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