Download or read book A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 7 written by John Rogers Commons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Documentary History of American Industrial Society, Vol. 7: Labor Movement For ideas, like methods of getting a living, have their evolution. The struggle for existence, the elimination of the unfit, the survival of the fit, control these airy exhalations from the mind of man as they control the more substantial framework of his existence. The great man is the man in whose brain the struggling ideas of the age fight for supremacy until the survivors come out adapted to the economic struggle of the time. Judged by this test, Horace Greeley was the prophet of our most momentous period. The evolution of his ideas is the idealistic interpretation of our history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.