
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1
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The Good Cause Will Triumph
With the progress of time, society will more and more become the society of free men. The good cause will triumph because it is the cause of reason. Men are not infallible. They err very often. Belief in the common man is no better founded than was belief in the supernatural gifts of kings, priests and noblemen. There is no room within a system of praciology for melearism and optimistic fatalism. Man must daily choose anew between policies that lead to success and those that lead to disaster, social disintegration and barbarism. Only if men are such that they will espouse policies reasonable and likely to attain the ultimate ends aimed at, will civilization improve.
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