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a world of its own ; 2. The coordination and cooperation of such 

 atoms or cells with each other, in a collective body or organism, 

 according to their precise form and place. The want of either of 

 these factors, the distinct individual units, or the scientific group- 

 ing and marshaling of units in a collective unity, deprives a body of 

 its place in the organic world. The same factors must enter into 

 every social organization which is entitled to the name. We have in 

 this country an example of a true organization in our federative 

 political system, composed of townships, counties, States, and nation, 

 with its motto, " Out of many, one." I have drawn thence the 

 designation Federative for the organized Homestead. 



It is essential that relations of precise equity shall prevail between 

 the proprietors of a Collective Home. The right of individual 

 property in each domicile should be fortified by separate title and 

 right of sale, subject only to chartered restrictions. In a well con- 

 structed and organized Federative Homestead such domiciles would 

 alwaj's be salable at full cost value. A precise account, based on 

 accurate standards of measurement, must be kept with each individ- 

 ual or family, including both general and special supplies and ser- 

 vices. Instruction in the schools of the Palace would be classed 

 among services to be specially accounted for. Our present common- 

 school system (the best of our institutions) is a violation of social 

 organic law, on the side of communism, to balance its violation in 

 the opposite direction by incoherent industry and incoherent homes. 

 The only scientific justification, if it may be so called, of the present 

 system, is the rule that two wrongs make a right. The relation of 

 highly-organized societies to children will, without doubt, be parental, 

 through the recognition of new equities and the extension of mutual 

 affection and service. But the further consideration of this subject 

 does not belong here. 



There are two extremes of reaction against existing society : one, 

 Communism, its destructive fusion ; the other, Individual Sovereignty, 

 its destructive analysis. Each tends to social dissolution, because it 

 rejects one of the organic factors. Between these extremes occupy- 

 ing the domain of organization are two possible social orders, one 

 constructive, attractive in all its forces, cooperative, in harmony with 

 modern thought, and with the development of science and the arts. 

 The People's Palace is the natural form of household belonging to 

 this order. The other is an inverted organization, compulsory, actu- 

 ated by destructive rivalries, characterized by speculation and fraud, 

 and feudal in its tendencies and results. To this latter order, the 

 middle-age civilization of Europe and America, Avhich still holds 

 us, belong the isolated house and all in our present methods which 

 insulate instead of associating the industries, and reconciling the 

 interests of mankind. The single but sufficient means of resisting 

 the communistic dissolution of our present society is to substitute 

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