280 The Ideal State 



chief delight therein, well content with the gratitude 

 and appreciation of their fellow-men, and deriving 

 serene satisfaction and elevation of soul from the 

 thought that by taking trouble they have been able to 

 do good to others. 



As man grows in spiritual attainment, which we 

 believe we have proved is a necessary result of the 

 present evolutionary process at work in our Western 

 civilisation, it seems right to believe that all idea of 

 value will be discarded. Each man will have food, 

 housing, and clothing secured to him without payment 

 of any kind, simply in return for good work well done. 

 As we have indicated, the gold standard must be 

 abolished ultimately if the race is to evolve to a higher 

 spiritual nature. A higher evolution is quite impossible 

 as long as man has the opportunity of giving way to 

 greed, to the accumulation of unnecessary wealth and 

 property. Each unit will find his niche in the great 

 temple of the State, and be willing to do there the work 

 for which he is best fitted, in the interests of his fellow- 

 men, and realising in supremest degree his own happi- 

 ness. Each works for all, and all for each, and are 

 thereby content. The spirit of love and self-sacrifice 

 inculcated by the Saviour of men shall have overcome 

 the world under the guidance of the law of righteous- 

 ness which proceedeth from the Eternal. 



There are difficulties not a few, and of no mean order, 

 which must be faced — " the way is long, and the path 

 is steep " — but the overcoming of these is demanded 

 by the spiritual evolutionary process, as necessary to 

 its fulfilment, and in order to allow of the realisation of 

 the ideal state, where selfishness will be unknown and 

 altruism the one rule of life. Just to mention one 

 difficulty : let us imagine that a great intellect is found 

 to inhabit a member of the State engaged in a menial 

 occupation. Is he to be removed from his work and 



