There is no reason why in a society which has reached the general level of wealth which ours has attained the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom. There are difficult questions about the precise standard which should thus be assured; there is particularly the important question whether those who thus rely on the community should indefinitely enjoy all the same liberties as the rest.3 An incautious handling of these questions might well cause serious and perhaps even dangerous political problems; but there can be no doubt that some minimum
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