ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapter of this book. The book attempts to draw together the conclusions that are warranted by the whole course of the inquiry, so far as they bear upon the question of securing a less uneven distribution of wealth. The central thesis of the book is that, so far as the economic forces work without friction, they secure to every one the equivalent of his industrial significance at the point of the industrial organism at which he is placed. The full and comprehending acceptance of this principle would at once dispel a number of hopes and banish a number of fears and scruples. The triumph of a material democracy, without the corresponding spread of the democratic spirit, would cause acute distress and sense of wrong in the face of phenomena which would be hailed with heartfelt thankfulness were the democratic spirit penetratingly present.
