418 CONCLUSION. 



to satisfy the unsatisfied needs of millions of 

 Europeans. And again, you will be struck to 

 see with what facility and in how short a time 

 your needs of dress and of thousands of articles 

 of luxury can be satisfied, when production is 

 carried on for satisfying real needs rather than 

 for satisfying shareholders by high profits or for 

 pouring gold into the pockets of promoters and 

 bogus directors. Very soon you will yourselves 

 feel interested in that work, and you will have 

 occasion to admire in your children their eager 

 desire to become acquainted with Nature and 

 its forces, their inquisitive inquiries as to the 

 powers of machinery, and their rapidly develop- 

 ing inventive genius. 



Such is the future -already possible, already 

 realisable ; such is the present already con- 

 demned and about to disappear. And what 

 prevents us from turning our backs to this present 

 and from marching towards that future, or, at 

 least, making the first steps towards it, is not 

 the " failure of science," but first of all our crass 

 cupidity the cupidity of the man who killed 

 the hen that was laying golden eggs and then 

 our laziness of mind that mental cowardice BO 

 carefully nurtured in the past. 



For centuries science and so-called practical 

 wisdom have said to man : " It is good to be 

 rich, to be able to satisfy, at least, your material 



