If concern for human poverty and suffering were one's primary motive, one would
seek to discover their cause. One would not fail to ask: Why did some nations
develop, while others did not? Why have some nations achieved material
abundance, while others have remained stagnant in subhuman misery? History and,
specifically, the unprecedented prosperity-explosion of the nineteenth century,
would give an immediate answer: capitalism is the only system that enables men
to produce abundance—and the key to capitalism is individual freedom.
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