let us consider three typical examples: the aeroplane, the wireless, and the contraceptive. in a civilized community, in peacetime, anyone who can pay for them may use these things. but it cannot strictly be said that when he does so he is exercising his own proper or individual power over nature. if i pay you to carry me, i am not therefore myself a strong man. Any or all of the three things i have mentioned can be withheld from some men by other men—by those who sell, or those who allow the sale, or those who own the sources of production, or those who make the goods. What we call Man’s
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