420 CONCLUSION. 



themselves create all imaginable riches. Tech- 

 nics and science will not be lagging behind if 

 production takes such a direction. Guided by 

 observation, analysis and experiment, they will 

 answer all possible demands. They will reduce 

 the time which is necessary for producing wealth 

 to any desired amount, so as to leave to every- 

 one as much leisure as he or she may ask for. 

 They surely cannot guarantee happiness, be- 

 cause happiness depends as much, or even more, 

 upon the individual himself as upon his sur- 

 roundings. But they guarantee, at least, the 

 happiness that can be found in the full and 

 varied exercise of the different capacities of the 

 human being, in work that need not be over- 

 work, and in the consciousness that one is not 

 endeavouring to base his own happiness upon 

 the misery of others. 



These are the horizons which the above inquiry 

 opens to the unprejudiced mind. 



