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>[John McGinnis]:
>In contrast, conservatives are correct in understanding that, because of
>natural inequality, structures must be fashioned to prevent harmful
>schemes aimed at the delusive goal of eliminating it. ...
Therefore, let it be laid down in the first place that a
condition of human existence must be borne with, namely, that in
civil society the lowest cannot be made equal to the highest.
Socialists, of course, agitate the contrary, but all struggling
against nature is vain. There are truly very great and very many
natural differences among men. Neither the talents, nor the
skill, nor the health, nor the capacities of all are the same,
and unequal fortune follows of itself upon necessary inequality
in respect to these endowments. And clearly this condition of
things is adapted to benefit both individuals and the community;
for to carry on its affairs community life requires varied
aptitudes and diverse services, and to perform these diverse
services men are impelled most by differences in individual
property holdings.
---"On the Condition of the Working Classes", *Rerum Novarum*,
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Pope Leo XIII issued on May 15,
1891.
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