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The Ideal State 



guarded that it never goes beyond the strength of the 

 individual concerned ; and for everyone there must 

 be sufficient leisure to allow of physical and intellectual 

 culture. 



All art, music, and drama to be within the reach of 

 all ; all lectures and university teaching to be free to 

 all during times of leisure. 



All men working with their hands to retire at 

 fifty-five or sixty years, according to their physical 

 necessities ; all brain workers, such as professors and 

 lecturers, to retire at the same age, but still available in 

 giving counsel in regard to all matters where their ripe 

 experience is likely to be of benefit. 



The gold standard must ultimately be abolished of 

 necessity. There is no payment of money wages, and 

 consequently no accumulation of wealth, resulting in 

 such absurd distinctions as those which divide our 

 classes into rich and poor. There are neither rich nor 

 poor; all have enough and all are happy. The vice 

 of acquisitiveness has been overcome as a result of the 

 ripe experience of the past and the altruism of Christian 

 ethics. The aim of everyone is "to take trouble to 

 do good to others," finding thereby their own chief est 

 good and soul's satisfaction. Men individually and 

 collectively seek to devise means to improve the con- 

 ditions under which succeeding generations will be 

 called upon to live. 



" Eugenics " are an automatic result of the improved 

 environment which from day to day finds betterment. 

 In the meantime such an Act as that recently before 

 the House of Commons for the care of the feeble- 

 minded is necessary. 



The State must assume complete control of the liquor 

 traffic. It is universally admitted to be the cause of 

 much widespread misery, not only to those who over- 

 indulge, but, in even a greater degree, to many innocent 



