Mat gives a quiz:

>Ok, Kelley. Here's your new quiz. Again, guess the author.
>
>"I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think
>that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to
>get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on
>each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life,
>are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the
>disagreeable symptoms of one of the phases of industrial
>progress...[T]he best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is
>poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being 
>thrust back,
>by the efforts of others to push themselves forward...

John Stuart Mill, _Principles of Political Economy_.

Yoshie

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