514 THE REIGN OF LOVE. 



cultivating the fields. Population will mightily in- 

 crease, and the earth will be a garden. Governments 

 will be conducted with the quietude and regularity of 

 club committees. The interest which is now felt in 

 politics will be transferred to science ; the latest news 

 from the laboratory of the chemist, or the observatory 

 of the astronomer, or the experimenting room of the 

 biologist will be eagerly discussed. Poetry and the fine 

 arts will take that place in the heart which religion 

 now holds. Luxuries will be cheapened and made 

 common to all ; none will be rich, and none poor. Not 

 only will Man subdue the forces of evil that are with- 

 out ; he will also subdue those that are within. He 

 will repress the base instincts and propensities which 

 he has inherited from the animals below ; he will obey 

 the laws that are written on his heart; he will worship 

 the divinity within him. As our conscience forbids us 

 to commit actions which the conscience of the savage 

 allows, so the moral sense of our successors will stig- 

 matize as crimes those offences against the intellect 

 which are sanctioned by ourselves. Idleness and 

 stupidity will be regarded with abhorrence. Women 

 will become the companions of men, and the tutors of 

 their children. The whole world will be united by the 

 same sentiment which united the primeval clan, and 

 which made its members think, feel, and act as one. 

 Men will look upon this star as their fatherland ; its 

 progress will be their ambition ; the gratitude of others 

 their reward. These bodies which now we wear, 

 belong to the lower animals ; our minds have already 

 outgrown them ; already we look upon them with con- 

 tempt. A time will come when Science will trans- 

 form them by means which we cannot conjecture, and 

 which, even if explained to us, we could not now 



