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give them my Estate or money in perpetuity, for 
which they will pay me a good annuity, or a per- 
petual income if I have heirs to gratify ! 
43, The inducements for Laborers under this 
Scheme is their mutual comfort and support, 
cheaper food and expenses by clubbing for 
cooking and every thing else, besides a proposal 
quite peculiar to make Labor as easy and plea- 
sant as a festival. Ploughing, reaping, manual 
labor, &c.are to be performed with songs, music 
and dances, just as if going to a weddipg — This 
is certainly something new, (unless martial mu- 
sic for soldiers is a pattern) and altho’ it may 
not suit the good followers of Penn, it will suit 
nine-tenths of Laborers and working men: four 
hours of daily labor or feasting will support any 
one and leave him twelve hours for study, read- 
ing, recreation, extra labor, exercise, meals, &c. 
besides 8 for sleep. Competition is also to be 
abolished and the hardest work the best paid. 
44, Altho’ the mutualities were contempla- 
ted to be chiefly rural Communities, in order 
to raise the needful food ; they might also be 
attempted in Cities, which are Centralities of 
Knowledge and Capital. A few houses put in 
common stock, some tools, shops, trades y &c. 
might be sufficient to begin with ; but rents and 
profits that absorb nearly all the fruits of Labor 
must be avoided as much as wages and extra 
expenses. By all being put in Common Stock 
for a term or forever, food, clothing, and Divi- 
dends might be procured at any rate for all con- 
cerned. 
45, Such mutual plan if duly combined with 
religious Tolerance and Love to all men, might 
be still more successful any where. There will 
be no doubt many pious men who may give it a 
