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In the future lawyers will scarcely be needed, for all ques- 

 tions will be decided upon the principles of equity. When 

 commerce becomes a system of exchanges on a large scale, 

 and easily managed; when the motives and opportunities for 

 fraud and crime have been alike removed; when all property, 

 and the proceeds of all industry, are equitably distributed, there 

 can scarcely be such a thing as a distinct legal profession. 

 And when perfect sanitary arrangements exist in every society, 

 and good habits of living become universal, we may very nearly 

 dispense with drugs and doctors. A very few surgeons would 

 answer all requirements. Nearly the whole class of useless con- 

 sumers would become producers; the hours of toil would be 

 diminished; those of art, intellectual improvement, and recrea- 

 tion increased ; and the surplus energy of the world would be 

 directed to the subjugation of nature, and the education of the 

 human race. 



There remains, however, a really serious difficulty, and one 

 not of an imaginary character. It is one that now exists, 

 splitting our present society into conflicting elements, and 

 making great trouble in all efforts at social improvement. It 

 is the religious difficulty. How are Christians and Infidels to 

 live together in harmony? The strongest motives which govern 

 one class have no influence over the other. What peace can 

 there be between Trinitarians and Unitarians, when the most 

 solemn act of the worship of one is simple idolatry to the 

 other? How can we form societies of Roman Catholics and 

 Protestants those governed by the authority of an infallible 

 Church and Pontiff these asserting and exercising the right 

 of private individual judgment on every question of faith and 

 morals? How can we hope to bring together Churchmen and 

 Dissenters those who believe that Christ and His apostles 

 taught one doctrine, and those who have divided as if they 

 believed that He and they taught twenty? How, to narrow the 

 case, could we hope for harmony in a society composed of 



