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The World Naturally a Wilderness - Cattle and Food Plant Improvements - Origin and Economical Effect of Agriculture - True Theory of the Struggle for Existence - Man's Creative Ability - The Human, or Rational Type of Life has an Immensely Widened Power of Adaptation - The Human Struggle for Existence on a Plane by Itself - Division of Labour - Its Influence on Production - Division of Labour and Co-operation Complementary - Increasing Value of, Mind in Civilised Life - Human Wants not Fixed or Limitable - Three Leading Aspects of Economic Truth - Society an Organ ism - The Natural Law of Society - Origin and Growth of Right and Common Security - Society Multiplies Means of Subsistence - Origin of the Arts - The True Social Law the Key to Economic Problems - Relationship of Economics to Politics and Ethics - The Economic System not an Invention of Men - Why Economic Laws are Beyond Human Caprice - The Opening of a New Era - Rival and Alternative Economic Systems Imaginary.
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