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THE ABNORMAL MAN. 



Wealth. 



Slaving is 



Excessive Toil 

 Injures Offspring, 



Commercialism exalts the few and enslaves the 

 masses. Of the immediate results of this all are 

 painfully aware. The wretchedness, misery, and 

 struggles of the poor; the indolence, dissipation 

 and equally unfortunate conditions of the ex- 

 tremely rich, have been the inspiration of many 

 writers. Deception, robbery, forgery, the break- 

 ing of public trusts, the defrauding of the unsus- 

 pecting, the buying of courts and legislators, the 

 wrecking of legitimate business by monopoly, and 

 the sacrifice of national honor in the interests of 



avaricious ca P italists > have been full y discussed 

 in the press and on the platform; yet the larger 

 part of the baneful results arising from the super- 

 normal power conferred upon wealth is expressed 

 in the heredity of succeeding generations. 



Poverty and overwork are both unnecessary. 

 Careful calculations indicate that four hours a day 

 of well directed labor by every able bodied man 

 an( j woman would provide the entire pupula-tion 

 with all the necessities and most of the luxuries 

 now enjoyed by the well-to-do classes. Four 

 hours a day of labor is not more exercise than 

 should be taken for the development and main- 

 tenance of physical strength and mental vigor. 



Under present conditions the masses are com- 

 pelled to slave to a point of exhaustion and eke 

 out a miserable existence, while the few live in 

 luxury, ease and dissipation, on the wealth thus 

 produced- the result being that neither are in 

 condition to give a good inheritance to offspring. 

 Even among the independent classes, where 

 neither poverty nor circumstances necessitate 

 overwork, the mania to get rich induces many to 



