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Personal Competition: Its Place in the Social Order and Effect Upon Individuals; With Some Considerations on Success (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover
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Excerpt from Personal Competition<br/><br/>Status is not an active process as competition is; it is simply a rule of conservation, a makeshift to avoid the inconveniences of continual readjustment in the social structure. Competition or selection is the only con structive principle, and everything worthy the name of organization had at some time or other a competitive origin. At the present day the eldest son of a peer may succeed to a seat in the House of Lords simply by right of birth; but his ancestor got the seat by competition, by some exercise of personal qualities that made him valued, or loved, or feared, by a king or a minister....
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