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their births. For all necessary purposes — such is the easy 
and equal distribution of labour, and so comparatively light 
are the tasks of labour — -from three to four hours in the 
twenty-four are sufficient for everything that needs to be 
done, by the busiest of the busy, to keep the social machine 
in perfect order. 
Thus, in Salutland, ample time is left for the pursuit of 
every useful, healthy, and ennobling occupation. Its happy 
people cultivate every beautiful and refined art, every branch 
of natural science ; their literature, chiefly of Nature and 
of Life, and History of Life, while it has lost none of the 
brilliancy and point of the present rapid method, is deeper 
and richer and newer. The age of criticism has passed 
away. To visit all the planet, make the grand tour of the 
earth ; to know all history by biography, so that no man or 
woman who has helped humanity a hair’s-breadth on its way 
may escape their appreciative and correct knowledge ; to 
compare all artistic existence with the nature from which it 
sprang ; to read men through the languages they have 
spoken ; to study the physical directions of mental pheno- 
mena, and from the repetitions of history to forecast even 
history : these are the studies of their learned men, and the 
texts from which the learned impart their stores of erudition. 
To perfect these studies every means is offered by which, with- 
out prize-giving or other false stimulus, the choicest rivalry 
may be naturally imported. Musicis most perfected. Thestage 
maintains its reputation, and is utilised to the grandest 
purposes. Art in the form of sculpture is encouraged with 
the greatest care. Architecture is another profession which 
vies in splendour. Here, too, the true painter has found a 
home. Science is the unembodied Nestor of the teacher 
and the taught. To know is to exist ; and Science is 
knowing, existing. For the museums of Science, the col- 
eCtions of the works of the Universal Father, the architect 
expends his best designing energies, the builder his finest 
work, the mechanist his choicest skill. Astronomy still 
heads the line of the pure sciences, chemistry follows, and 
meteorology, geology, natural history, anthropology, me- 
chanics, and engineering, and other sciences find all their 
true places. Health science stands alone ; it includes all 
the rest. Salus salutis ; scientia seientice. 
While thus, in systematised order, the gentle and refining 
arts and sciences are cultivated as exercises for the mind, 
the physical health is tended with equal care. Out-door 
life is the first thought, and out-door exercises of a skilful 
and useful character are to the fullest extent encouraged. 
