Excerpt from Poverty and Riches: A Study of the Industrial Regime The people of the United States are in sympathy with the Allies for many reasons, and among them is the strongly marked feeling that the United States is a lineal descendant of individualized, democratic England. At that point several questions present them selves. What is individualism? Is it right or true? Will it work? Spencerian individualism regarded the human being as the basic unit of society. Intellectually, that premise is sound. Biologically and socially, it is unsound. The human being uses his mind as an individual, but he cannot reproduce himself without a mate The biologic unit is therefore a male and female. Speaking in terms of race perpetuation, individualism must refer to the unit of a man and a woman. 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.