408 BRAIN WORK AND 



culture has been indicated in the preceding 

 pages. Even in that branch the productivity 

 of labour can be immensely increased, and work 

 itself rendered easy and pleasant. If everyone 

 took his share of production, and if production 

 were socialised as political economy, if it aimed 

 at the satisfaction of the ever-growing needs 

 of all, would advise us to do then more than 

 one half of the working day would remain to 

 everyone for the pursuit of art, science, or any 

 hobby he or she might prefer ; and his work in 

 those fields would be the more profitable if he 

 spent the other half of the day in productive 

 work if art and science were followed from 

 mere inclination, not for mercantile purposes. 

 Moreover, a community organised on the prin- 

 ciples of all being workers would be rich enough 

 to conclude that every man and woman, after 

 having reached a certain age say of forty or 

 more ought to be relieved from the moral 

 obligation of taking a direct part in the perform- 

 ance of the necessary manual work, so as to be 

 able entirely to devote himself or herself to 

 whatever he or she chooses in the domain of 

 art, or science, or any kind of work. Free pur- 

 suit in new branches of art and knowledge, free 

 creation, and free development thus might be 

 fully guaranteed. And such a community 

 would not know misery amidst wealth. It would 



