will be carried on in an orderly and cleanly manner, and the face of the earth will be beautified and not degraded by man’s labour and habitation. Another tyranny will be overthrown in our release from the compulsion of living in over-grown and over-crowded towns, and our houses and their surroundings will be dealt with in a reasonable manner.
Education will no longer be applied to the fortuitous cramming of unwilling children, and of young men intensely desirous of doing anything else than being educated,—and only submitting to that process for the sake of getting on in their careers,—and will become one of the most serious businesses of life even to men of the greatest natural capacities. Such a life, it is clear, will be pretty much the reverse of that which some opponents of the new order, scientists as well as meaner personages, profess to see 320 in the advancing “tyranny of Socialism.” But we are convinced that this life, which means general happiness for all men, free from any substratum of slavery, will be forced on the world. Yet that world will not be wholly conscious of the gradual and natural compulsion which it will have to yield to, and which it will find by its results to have been wholly beneficent.