bourgeois organisation that thereare found this 

 atrophy and loss of so many individualities 

 which might develop to their own advantage 

 and to the advantage of society at large ? 

 To-day, in fact, apart from a few exceptions, 

 everyone is valued for what he possesses, and 

 not for what he is. 



He who is born poor, obviously through no 

 fault of his own, may be endowed by nature 

 with artistic or scientific genius, but if he has 

 no patrimony of his own which will give him 

 the means of triumphing over his first 

 struggles, and of completing his personal 

 education, or if he has not, like the shepherd 

 Giotto, the good fortune to meet the rich 

 Cimabue he must disappear without a name 

 in the great prison of wage slavery, and 

 society itself thus loses treasures of intellectual 

 force. 



He who is born rich, although he owes his 

 fortune to no personal effort, even if he has 

 little brains, will play a leading part in the 

 theatre of life, and all servile persons will be 

 prodigal of praises and flattery, and he will 

 fancy, simply because he has money, that he 

 is a different sort of person from what he 

 really is. 



When property has become collective, that 

 is under the socialist regime, each man will 

 have his means of existence assured, and daily 

 work will only serve to bring to light the 

 special aptitudes more or less original of each 

 individual, and the best and most fruitful 

 years of life 'will not be used up as they are 



