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will not be as considerable as most imagine. 

 When industries for personal luxuries are once 

 suppressed which are most often a defiance 

 to the misery of the masses the quantity 

 and variety of labours will gradually, that is 

 to say, naturally, adapt themselves to the 

 socialistic phase of civilisation as they now 

 correspond to the bourgeois phase. 



Besides, under the socialistic regime every- 

 one will have greater liberty to assert and 

 show his personal aptitude, and it will not 

 happen, as it does to-day, that from want of 

 pecuniary means many peasants or members 

 of the working class or small shop keepers 

 endowed with natural talents, remain 

 atrophied and are forced to be peasants, 

 workmen, or employees when they could 

 furnish society with a different and more 

 fruitful work better adapted to their peculiar 

 genius. 



The essential point consists solely in this : 

 In exchange for the work with which they 

 supply society, the latter ought to assure to the 

 peasant and artisan, just' as to the man who 

 devotes himself to a liberal career, conditions 

 of existence worthy of a human being. 



Then will also disappear the unworthy 

 spectacle which causes a dancer, for example, 

 to gain by her steps in one evening as much 

 as a scientist, a doctor, or a lawyer, in a year 

 of work though they are indeed more likely 

 to impersonate misery in a black coat. 



Certainly the arts will not be neglected in 

 the socialistic regime, because socialism 



