Eddy, Arthur Jerome: The new competition: an examination of the conditions underlying the radical change that is taking place in the commercial and industrial world ; the change from a competitive to a cooperative basis (New York [u.a.], 1912)

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THE NEW COMPETITION

VI
Of all the rivalries in which man engages brute competi-
tion in the production and distribution of wealth is the
most contemptible, since it is the most sordid, a mere
money-making proposition, unrelieved by a single higher
consideration.
This is not the fault of competition—of rivalry as such
—but of our industrial economy. There is nothing in-
herently wrong in rivalry in the large sense of the term;
on the contrary, it is a most powerful incentive toward per-
fection, ethical, aesthetic, and material; it is the most power-
ful incentive toward cooperation, which is the foundation
of progress.
Rivalry—competition in its broadest significance—is the
earnest, intelligent; friendly striving of man with man to
attain results beneficial to both; it is neither relentless nor
indifferent; it is neither vicious nor vindictive, it is not in-
considerate, nor is it wholly selfish; it is not mechanical,
but human, and should be, therefore, sympathetic.