Excerpt from What Business Is For: A Paper at the Buffalo Congress of Religion This idea of business is so common that many who think themselves socialists appear to con ceive of a socialist commonwealth as a more ingenious scheme by which selfish men, still remaining selfish, may expect by pooling their interests to get more for everybody than they could get alone. As a modern trust is supposed to be a contrivance whereby a few selfish men may make more money together than they could make in competition, so socialism is often thought to be such a larger device for the benefit of the many. It is a trust, in which all do business together to the end that every selfish individual may get more for himself than he could get alone. 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.