Yet another suggestion may be sketched as follows:— a centre of a community, which can be described as a very small town with big houses, including various public buildings, the whole probably grouped about an open space. Then a belt of houses gradually diminishing in number and more and more spaced out, till at last the open country should be reached, where the dwellings, which would include some of the abovementioned colleges, should be sporadic.
We might go on furnishing suggestions, in which, however, as above, cross divisions are sure to occur. What we have given, however, we think quite enough, for they are clearly the birth of our own prepossessions. One thing, however, all such schemes must take for granted as a matter of principle, to wit the doing away of all antagonism between town and country, and all tendency for the one to suck the life out of the other.
As regards Education, it should be 317 borne in mind that it must of necessity cease to be a preparation for a life of commercial success on the one hand, or of irresponsible labour on the other; and therefore in either case a short and perfunctory exercise with a definite object, more or less sordid in view. It will become rather a habit of making the best of the individual's powers in all directions to which he is led by his innate disposition; so that no man will ever “finish” his education while he is alive, and his early training will never lie behind him a piece of mere waste, as it most often does now.
In what we have been stating we have only been dealing with some of the elementary principles of Socialism Triumphant, and certain of those aspects of life resulting from them that lie nearest the surface; but at least we have tried to make our belief clear, that in the new order of things, while no one will be hampered by false ideas of duty, every one will have before him a broad ideal by which he may regulate his conduct with assurance and peace of mind. He 318 will find his pleasure in the satisfaction, first, of his bodily desires, and then of the intellectual, moral,