and aesthetic needs which will inevitably arise when a man is not at odds with his body, and 1s not exhausting his intellect in a vain combat with its urgent promptings. It will be necessary for him then as always to labour in order to live, but he will share that labour in equitable proportions with all his fellows; and, moreover, he will at last be able to turn man’s mastery over nature to account in relieving him of the mere drudgery of toil. What remains of labour, by wise use of opportunity and due observation of the various capacities of mankind he will turn into a pleasurable exercise of his energies; and thus between his rest and his work will at the least lead a life of happiness, which he will be able to enjoy without imputing it to himself for wickedness; a habit of mind which, under the prevailing ethical ideas, casts a gloom over so many of those who may be considered to belong to the more intellectual of the well-to-do classes.
As to his external surroundings, the 319 society of the future will be wealthy enough to spare labour from the production of the only things now allowed to be utilities, for cultivating the decencies of life, so that all manufacture