ABSTRACT

Foremost amongst these is the growth of economic instability in our society, which is directly attributable to the misapplication of machinery. A nation to be stable must be so at its base. The workers must neither be insecure nor suffer, from a sense of insecurity. Evidence is not wanting that unregulated machine production is carrying people along this path of destruction. Mr. Chesterton once said that modern society was getting top-heavy, and the danger was that it would turn turtle. Sir Leo Chiozza Money is a believer in the extended use of machinery, but he does not believe in Guilds. He is consistent in his point of view, for it is almost a certainty that if the Guilds were restored efforts would be made to regulate machinery. It is strange that Sir Leo should object to Guild organization for reasons, for it was realization of danger of stereotyping men which first opened the author's eyes to the evils of Collectivism.