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COMPETITION IS WAR
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to be preserved. In the case of man the cooperation of
parents is supplemented by that of the tribe, the community,
the state, and, in the better days to come, the woefully im-
perfect present cooperation of the state will develop into an
intelligent and far-seeing interest compared with which that
of the parent to-day is ignorant and inefficient.
In the world of trade and industry success is the result
of cooperation. Division of labor is cooperation. The
vital condition that each man may devote himself to the
pursuit for which he is best fitted depends upon coopera-
tion.
Cooperation is interdependence, a sacrifice, and, at the
same time, a gain of independence.
The farmer depends upon the manufacturer for his
goods, the manufacturer upon the farmer for his food, but
this very dependence leads to larger individual independ-
ence, to broader opportunities for individual development.
If each man were obliged to produce all he needs the world
would be in a condition lower than that of the lowest known
savages, for with even them there is some division of labor,
some cooperation.
The history of every people of every nation has been
the history of the rise and fall of cooperation. The history
of every industry has been a story of the rise and fall of
cooperation.
Every partnership, every association, every corporation,
every trust is cooperation—for what? To produce results,
to get larger returns for time and money spent.
Whether this form or that form of cooperation is right
or wrong is not here under discussion; only the effect of co-
operation as distinguished from competition.
The terms as heretofore used are diametrically opposed.
It is the purpose of this book to show wherein the New
Competition is a highly developed form of cooperation, but
the New Competition has little in common with the old.
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to be preserved. In the case of man the cooperation of
parents is supplemented by that of the tribe, the community,
the state, and, in the better days to come, the woefully im-
perfect present cooperation of the state will develop into an
intelligent and far-seeing interest compared with which that
of the parent to-day is ignorant and inefficient.
In the world of trade and industry success is the result
of cooperation. Division of labor is cooperation. The
vital condition that each man may devote himself to the
pursuit for which he is best fitted depends upon coopera-
tion.
Cooperation is interdependence, a sacrifice, and, at the
same time, a gain of independence.
The farmer depends upon the manufacturer for his
goods, the manufacturer upon the farmer for his food, but
this very dependence leads to larger individual independ-
ence, to broader opportunities for individual development.
If each man were obliged to produce all he needs the world
would be in a condition lower than that of the lowest known
savages, for with even them there is some division of labor,
some cooperation.
The history of every people of every nation has been
the history of the rise and fall of cooperation. The history
of every industry has been a story of the rise and fall of
cooperation.
Every partnership, every association, every corporation,
every trust is cooperation—for what? To produce results,
to get larger returns for time and money spent.
Whether this form or that form of cooperation is right
or wrong is not here under discussion; only the effect of co-
operation as distinguished from competition.
The terms as heretofore used are diametrically opposed.
It is the purpose of this book to show wherein the New
Competition is a highly developed form of cooperation, but
the New Competition has little in common with the old.