Gathering kale for poultry on a Runny- 

 mede ranch 



RUNNYMEDE A PLAGE OF HIGHER INDEPENDENCE FOR 

 MAN IN HIS OWN GARDEN HOME 



Men are slaves to men and to themselves. They live in a beautiful 

 world with every natural advantage for a quiet, clean, healthful, 

 natural life out under the open sky, but instead of making use of this 

 rich heritage they bind themselves to perform the most ridiculous 

 tasks during their sojourn on earth. Instead of going to the very 

 fountain-head and source of peace and plenty from the soil, they set 

 themselves disagreeable tasks whereby they may earn a few paltry 

 dollars with which to buy the bare necessities of life. Thus the habit 

 of chasing the dollar is formed, and this habit becomes a mania until 

 the whole world of men become gamblers trying to get as many dollars 

 out of each other as they possibly can. The human race is playing 

 this dollar game until the whole world has become a place of gamble. 

 The dollar was first instituted as a convenience and not an end, but 

 man has forgotten the true end of life and goes on and on, weary and 

 footsore, doing heart-breaking labors for dollars. 



He gets mixed up with the means and loses sight of the true end of 

 life. Few men are satisfied with the task they are performing. 



If it was not for the dollar held up as the remuneration for this 

 despised task, they would drop it at once. They are unhappy in their 

 work and apologize for having no "better job." Man says that men 

 have the highest intellect of all the animals, yet with all this boasted 

 intellect men live the most unnatural lives of all the animal kingdom. 

 God never intended that human life should be jammed together in 

 masses in large cities, living in little box stalls piled layer on layer, with 

 little sunlight, bad air, eternal noise, no exercise and no definite purpose 

 but to go out among the sea of people and try and pick up a dollar. 

 The first and highest duty that man owes to himself is that of perfect- 

 ing and preserving his own bodily health. 



The body is the temple, the dwelling place of the higher self, and 

 why should men force their physical bodies to dwell in dark places and 

 to breathe air that will in the end wreck their health, and to subject 

 the nerves to severe strains in order to accumulate dollars? Is it 

 because men have not been shown a better way of living? Is it because 

 they are born into this eternal grind of things and cannot extricate 

 themselves? 



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