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Charitable co-operation over the energy of Selfishness, 

 Cruelty, Avarice and Greed, and united and organized indus- 

 try over individual enterprise. It therefore appears to me that 

 we are to make a new departure. The Science of Invention 

 is fast completing man's conquest over the material world. 



As I have pointed out, the elements becoming his masters 

 first conquered him and created his appeal to heaven for 

 help. Now that he has received an answer to that prayer, 

 which gave him religion, Evolution has brought science to 

 his aid. He is first learning to conquer the elements he 

 feared, and instead of fleeing from them in dread, he has 

 now made fire, water and air his servants, and, harnessing 

 them to his chariot, drives over land by fire, and sails over 

 water and air with his ships. Now so far he has only made 

 the forces of nature his servants, he has yet to learn how to 

 rule and use them to the best advantage. 



He is now abusing them by making them a means of 

 war and hate and selfish greed of wealth, as he has misused 

 all things in the past, not excepting even Religions. In 

 the case of trade, production and social co-operation he is not 

 using science and knowledge in the best manner, to create 

 charity, energ}^ and the utility of literary knowledge, but 

 is using them to increase party and class hate, and to destroy 

 the sacred qualities of work and energy, which it has taken 

 man millions of years to evolve so as to know how to work 

 efficiently. Men are doing their best to condemn their 

 children to extinction and damnation by raising up an army of 

 loafers and unemployables, more dreadful than the devils 

 of murder and cannibalism that mark man's triumph in 

 the Epoch of Faith. So the world of loafers, wasters, shirkers, 

 paupers and unemployables that modern civilisation is evolv- 

 ing will have to be made slaves of the state and condemned 

 to work in state-owned factories which will have to replace 

 the jails and confessionals of the past. In the future we 

 must strive to exterminate the criminals, not convert them. 



The rulers of nations are little more advanced, for 

 they are using the increase of knowledge of science to destroy 

 life, instead of creating it or, adding to its comforts by in- 

 creased production, just as their inferiors are using their 

 knowledge to destroy wealth and wasting lives in war, as much 

 as their inferiors are wasting their time instead of making 



