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is defendent on merits and performances, is now being dislodged in this unbalanced atmosphere. The direct effect of this imbalance of the sources of power is visible in the form that a deserving person is not getting his due share, while the undeserving is devouring all dues. An able being disappointed is sitting idle while the undeserving is artfully dancing with his incompetence.
The main balancing factor of power means, is division of labour in accordance with merits and performances? But when this division is might based only a robber-like person can hold high position in the society and not a noble and civilized one. When such a robber goes on robbing unscrupulously, then the sources of power will decidedly continue to be unbalanced. More and more power will centralise into a few and fewer hands, and those few hands will also be of murderers and executioners. On the other side a big and bigger number of men being powerless, shall have to be toppled down from the ordinary level of morality. Whether the society of today is not gripped in the plighted condition of materialism ? Non Alikeness of Luxury and Annihilation :
In the external condition of this world the variedness of luxury and destruction is each stationing on two separate precipices of downfall. A man standing on the precipice of luxury is horse-laughing, and that who is standing on the precipice of destruction is so perturbed that none of them has any knowledge that he may slip off any moment into the ditch of ruin.
Let us have a bird's eye view of this uneven scene. It appears that in the lust of self-interest and sensual pleasures,
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