brought about for attaining some external
end. Partnership, bargaining, voluntary
association would not come into existence
were it not for the prospect of mutual gain.
If one party alone gains, we see that some
unfairness has occurred. Yet because in
these unions mutuality is restricted to a
small group and to the accomplishment of
external purposes, they often become en-
gines for a selfishness more intense than
their separate members would approve.
A popular proverb exaggerates but little in
saying that corporations have no souls.

But such perilous restrictions are un-
necessary. There can be mutuality with-
out them. Instead of referring to an ex-
ternal end, unions can be formed for an
internal purpose. The very lives and as-
pirations of two persons may be joined.
That is unnecessary in business relations.
I may dislike my partner personally, yet
judge it wise to identify my commercial
interests with his. When I make a pur-
chase at a shop I do not inquire about the
character of the dealer. With that I have
no concern. His life is his, mine mine.
Our mutual relation touches only the value
of the article purchased. And something

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