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bent of genius, or pure attraction, would engage in every 

 necessary occupation; even in those which many consider the 

 most repulsive. Is it not evident that men are born scavengers, 

 when we see how eagerly they discuss the sewage question? 

 Look at the list of cookery books treatises on gastronomy, at 

 all prices. What curious inventions of washing and wringing 

 machines, churns, and cheese presses, apple and potato parers, 

 cherry stoners, egg beaters, knife cleaners, and the like! A 

 few clever men and women would find their true vocations, and 

 therefore their highest happiness in doing, with the aid of 

 machinery, all the cooking, laundry work, and what is called 

 the house-keeping of a large society, and with wonderful econ- 

 omies of time and cost. The clothing, tailoring, dressmaking, 

 and millinery would enlist the best artistic taste and skill, and 

 the invention and making of beautiful, graceful, and becoming 

 costumes would become a passion. There would be no follow- 

 ing of stupid, absurd, and unbecoming fashions. Dress would 

 express character, and be adapted to age and employment. 

 Every man, woman, and child would wear the most healthful, 

 convenient, agreeable, and characteristic costumes. Dress- 

 would be a language, an art, an expression of the true life ; and 

 no longer a tasteless conformity or monstrous absurdity. 



And many of the fashions of our daily life would be abolished 

 or delightfully changed. Where people were constantly meeting 

 each other in work or recreation, they would not go about leav- 

 ing cards and making formal insipid calls. With much interest 

 and variety in daily life people would no longer give or attend 

 the formal parties, so troublesome, tiresome, expensive, and 

 unsatisfactory. People would be drawn to each other by pure 

 attraction and congeniality ; they would . be repelled by any 

 unsuitedness to each other; and, equally free to approach to or 

 recede from each other, all associations would be natural, 

 spontaneous, and therefore useful and happy. In the world as 

 it is, vast numbers pine in utter loneliness, when there are all 



