Give me the stationary state of society and contentment, you may exclaim; but then even this stationary state is only maintained in these sequestered communities by the constant play of peculiar religious influences which cannot be counted on everywhere, and it would soon change into a declining state in the great seething world outside if it were not effectively counter-worked by the most powerful Incentives to progress.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
So our system creates no Incentives.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
Let us hope that such armaments may prove to be preventives and not Incentives to warfare.
"The Story of Malta"
Maturin M. Ballou