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aims of creation and the necessity of social distinctions and by 

 the destruction of class jealousies and racial animosities, and 

 by teaching the mass of the people that success must lie in 

 the united efforts of employer and employee, rich and poor, 

 labour and capital, combining to combat and destroy indolence, 

 failure and want of skill, and stopping the breeding of the 

 criminals and unemployables, and confining unions to the 

 limits of assisting their members in obtaining employment, 

 increasing the skill of the workers, and increasing facilities 

 for the ease and rapidity of work by efficiency in machinery, 

 skill and management ; but prohibiting their having any politi- 

 cal status or interfering with free and unfettered competition 

 in an open labour market ; so as to produce the greatest pos- 

 sible incentive to energy under free conditions of trade and 

 contract, trusting to God to reward him with prosperity in 

 proportion to his utility, skill and usefulness to others, rather 

 than to himself, and aiming at selfish individual acquisition 

 of wealth and power. The right to possess must be the 

 capability to use, manage or control with wisdom, not the 

 might to hold or retain. Might has been the sole standard of 

 possession, and rightly so in the past, for man's one prominent 

 duty in the Epoch of Hope has been to reward physical 

 superiority, and, but for the virtues of cruelty, selfishness and 

 greed, he would have lacked the powers or inducements neces- 

 sary to have overcome the pain and suffering required to fit 

 his body to receive a soul, or to evolve religions, empires, or 

 commerce, and to exploit the world. But these qualities which 

 circumstances have in the past made into virtues are now to 

 become crimes, and in future he will to a much larger extent 

 have to become his own expounder of revelation and have to 

 decide for himself what is right or wrong, or, failing to do so, 

 to be made a government slave and incarcerated, and should, 

 if necessary, be punished by castration ; or else, when war is 

 abolished, we must resort to starvation to rid us of the unfit. 



Hitherto man's soul has only partially developed, and God 

 did not intend him to be his own expounder of revelation. In 

 the future it will become his first duty to tear down the veils 

 of superstition and bigotry, and on their ashes to build a 

 clearer and more perfect understanding of the past fables of 

 revelation that were necessary to enable him to see and believe 

 and be interested in the parables and fables and fairy tales 



