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desires life to be agreeable to all, and this 

 to-day is only the privilege of the few ; it 

 will give, on the contrary, a marvellous im- 

 petus to all the arts, and, if it abolishes 

 private luxury, it will be to favour the 

 splendour of public monuments. 



More attention will be paid to the remuner- 

 ation given to each for work done, and 

 compensation for specially difficult or dan- 

 gerous tasks will be given by increasing the 

 value to the workman of each hour spent on 

 them. If a peasant in the open-air can work 

 seven or eight hours a day, a miner ought not 

 to work more than three or four hours. In 

 fact, when all the world works, and when 

 many unproductive works are suppressed, the 

 sum total of daily work to divide among men 

 will be much less heavy and easier to bear (in 

 consequence of more abundant food, more 

 comfortable lodging and recreations assured 

 to each) than it is to-day for those who work 

 and who are so badly treated. Also, the 

 progress of the application of science to in- 

 dustry will render the work of men less and 

 less laborious. 



Individuals will voluntarily give themselves 

 up to work, although their salary or remunera- 

 tion cannot be accumulated as private riches, 

 because if a healthy, normal, well-nourished 

 man avoids excessive or badly-paid work, he 

 does not remain in idleness, for there is for 

 him a physiological and psychological neces- 

 sity to give himself up to a daily occupation 

 in keeping with his aptitudes. 



