Their misery came, with all your other miseries, from that incapacity for cooperation which followed from the individualism on which your social system was founded, from your inability to perceive that you could make ten times more profit out of your fellow men by uniting with them than by contending with them.

The wonder is, not that you did not live more comfortably, but that you were able to live together at all, who were all confessedly bent on making one another your servants, and securing possession of one another's goods.
"There, there, father, if you are so vehement, Mr.West will think you are scolding him," laughingly interposed Edith.
"When you want a doctor," I asked, "do you simply apply to the proper bureau and take any one that may be sent ?" "That rule would not work well in the case of physicians," replied Dr.
Leete.

"The good a physician can do a patient depends largely on his acquaintance with his constitutional tendencies and condition.

The patient must be able, therefore, to call in a particular doctor, and he does so just as patients did in your day.

The only difference is that, instead of collecting his fee for himself, the doctor collects it for the nation by pricking off the amount, according to a regular scale for medical attendance, from the patient's credit card." "I can imagine," I said, "that if the fee is always the same, and a doctor may not turn away patients, as I suppose he may not, the good doctors are called constantly and the poor doctors left in idleness." "In the first place, if you will overlook the apparent conceit of the remark from a retired physician," replied Dr.Leete, with a smile, "we have no poor doctors.