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are still, and ever must be, their best friends as well as their 

 superiors. The only difference is, that the rich have now to 

 help the poor by the loan of capital in place of gifts of alms. 



This can only be gained by the poor trying to give the 

 best possible day's work for a fair day's pay, freely and 

 honestly, and to take a pride in the prosperity of their superiors 

 instead of striving to get the highest pay for the lowest possible 

 amount of work. The latter aim can only tend to perpetuate 

 civil wars and class enmities and increase poverty, which is 

 even worse than national war, and the rich man must realise 

 his duties will be increased and he will have to exert more 

 rigid power to enforce control than hitherto. We have 

 abolished the right of robbery under arms, family feuds and 

 vendettas. We must abolish war between the different classes 

 of society, nations, races, and creeds. And after that the 

 feuds between master and man, town and country, capital and 

 labour, and all that interferes with the liberty of each one's 

 useful rights of competition. Now, no one objects to prefer- 

 ence to birth in giving employment to youthful labour, for 

 we all admit like father like son, but no one approves of 

 preference to birth over ability in cases of promotion. Hence 

 it is a wise and universal custom to consider the parentage of 

 a youthful candidate, and every reasonable person would do 

 so, but it would only be an act of folly if promotion were given 

 on the basis of heredity or if incompetency was not condemned 

 irrespective of birth, unionism or any other combination. 



Hence we must in the future strive to breed out, not 

 fight out, crime. To prevent crime and death, not reform crime 

 or cure disease. To sin in moderation, not to be good to 

 excess. To attain these aims we must organise some mean3 

 of using our criminal as a means of producing state funds for 

 charitable purposes. State control of manufactures must 

 be confined if possible to criminals and irredeemable failures. 

 When we have in the next two hundred to five hundred years 

 learnt these lessons we will be able to live in peace with one 

 another, in joy and comfort individually as well as nationally. 

 Therefore concurrent with these advancements in know- 

 ledge as the science evolution teaches mankind to correct these 

 errors of states, religions and social governments, nations will 

 realise the folly of war and " peace will be granted to men of 

 good will." It should here be remembered that if my 



