sexes will acquire an interest in, and a love for, scientific truths. No longer shall we hear the astonishing assertion that science is "dry and unpoetic."

There also will be the Theatre of Art, which still further will cultivate the child's love for the beautiful. Let us reflect for a moment what this means. There is probably no more regenerating force in the universe than an intelligent appreciation of the beautiful. The power of this environment will be such as will quicken the dullest mind to useful endeavour.

We have shown, in the earlier chapters of this work, what a tremendous factor for good or evil is environment. The earlier years of Willie Jones's life will be spent in general education. No time will be wasted. He will not be taught dead languages, or but slightly useful living ones, on the ground that they cultivate his memory. On the contrary, he will learn to speak and write Esperanto, or some other universal language, with fluency. The advantages of Esperanto are manifest to all who can bring an unprejudiced mind to bear upon the subject. It is hardly to be expected that linguists, who make a business of teaching the allbut-unfathomable intricacies of foreign languages, invariably will take kindly to so simple, logical and easily mastered a language as Esperanto-a language invented for use rather than to confer educational distinction upon those who are able to master it. Whatever may be the fate of Esperanto, we may be reasonably sure that the new régime will so fully realise the value, nay, the absolute necessity of a common tongue in bringing about the perfect brotherhood of man, that some sort of universal language will be devised which will answer the needs of the new society. For ourselves we cannot see why Esperanto may not be developed perfectly to fill this requirement. If, under the new régime, the scholar is not taught a vast amount of relatively useless classics, on the ground that it is necessary to his general culture, neither will he be taught an illogical and ridiculous, as well as extremely labourious system of spelling, on the ground that it cultivates his memory, for there will be plenty of things intrinsically of value which are quite as capable of cultivating memory. For example, learning the chemical components of common compounds is a splendid aid to the memory, while it also possesses the great advantage of being extremely useful. It is quite possible for any intelligent youth to learn the fundamental principles underlying all departments of science, and it will be the effort of the new system to see that each of its scholars has a just conception of the scientific world which lies all about him. When the pupil has proceeded thus far, he will begin to fit himself for some chosen line of work, and, long before he leaves school, he actually will be doing this work for a good part of the time, indeed, the process of finishing school-life merely will be a process of giving more and more time to the chosen calling, and less and less time to the other school activities. There will be, therefore, no sharp line between school and work, and no pitiable educational debris thrown out upon the seething sea of life to sink in its depths, because it has never been educated to swim.

Basement of Tenement House in Block known as 66

Lung Block," because of prevalence of tuberculosis. No daylight - gas burning at midday. A woman in the last stages of tuberculosis working on fancy collars.

Reproduced from Report of "The Consumers' League" of New York.

If at any time after leaving school, boys or girls, men or women, desire further education in some particular branch, they at any time can get instruction, for the schools will be run upon a basis which will enable any pupils over fourteen to be fully self-supporting throughout their scholastic life. The effect of this system of education upon invention and discovery will transcend the dreams of Utopia.

We are told that a single bee knows nothing. That he is utterly unable to do anything alone, while the hive of bees, of which he forms a part, is marvellously intelligent. In like manner human beings have their "spirit of the hive," being capable of socialised intellectual efforts, beside which the petty attainments of individualism appear as nothing. There is a corporate mind which thinks, and a corporate soul which feels, and once this mind and this soul finds itself in proper environment, the world will be made to blos

som as a rose.

Crime, with all its attendant expense of prisons, police and complicated machinery of what would be justice if it were not something else, will disappear. Want, and the fear of want will cease to cast their heavy shadow over humanity. Fear will become a noonday scarecrow which will be laughed into oblivion, dragging after it most of the diseases to which flesh is heir. The few sick who remain will be cared for in hospitals provided with such scientific treatment and pleasant entertainment, as will cause them to be rid of their ills if that be possible, and to forget them if not. Such scenes as that depicted in the accompanying cut typifying a double fear, that of want and that of disease, will no longer be possible.

As a natural result of, and assistant to, the new system of education, there will grow up various sister institutions. There will be a grand Temple of Science, ministered to by the ablest scientists of the world. The discoveries of these men at once will be advertised and diffused for the good of all, instead of selfishly withheld or manipulated for personal gain. These scientists each will be within. instant reach of every other scientific worker. If the optician need. an electrical fact, he will have but to press a button to find himself talking with the head experts of an electrical department. If the electrician wish a bit of chemical information, the method will be the same. The pressure of a button places one in connexion with the Bureau of Vital Statistics, the department of Agriculture, the experts in Meteorology, and so forth; and so forth. The great inventor of the future will not have to waste weeks of his valuable time reading through Watt's Dictionary of Chemistry for a certain compound. On the contrary, he will need only to press the appropriate button, tell the characteristics of the substance he wishes to secure, and the department of chemistry will do the rest.

It constantly must be borne in mind that, under this new régime, human needs can be gratified by two or three hours' work a day, so that there will be plenty of time left for extra culture and voluntary social service. The result will be that many men and women will go into scientific and artistic pursuits in their leisure time. The

one great badge of respectability will be social service, not ostentatious idleness. He will be most looked up to and reverenced who most has benefited his fellows. There will be, therefore, a constant spirit of emulation, a persistent desire to merit good-will through service. This, it will be seen, stands our present competitive system on its head. Now, power and distinction, not to say applause and reverential cringing, come to him who wastes most and serves least. Ostentatious idleness is now the badge of enviable power. Silks, satins, diamonds, palatial residences, retinues of servants, gaudy equipages and princely expenditures, confer distinction and excite envy. Under the new régime such vapid follies would meet with an outspoken ridicule which they could not survive a fortnight. Diamonds would be the badge of vulgarity, and if their wearer tried to justify them on the ground that he loved them for their beauty and not their expensiveness and consequent ostentation, he would laughingly be invited to examine a diffraction grating, which, though worth but a few dollars, would put the Kohinoor to blush, in the matter of beauty.

We are told that among savage tribes, if one find a child who is hungry it is absolute evidence that the chief also is hungry. With our present competitive régime the hungry child proves that the social chiefs are riotiously wasting sustenance. Under the new system, the misfortune of one will be alleviated by all. Need we point out that all this will give rise to a new religion and a new church? A religion in conformity with the fundamental teachings of Christ; a religion where each man will realise himself his brother's keeper; a religion in which it indeed will be more blessed to give than to receive, and in which the Golden Rule will find universal expression in that public opinion which is the social conscience; a religion without dogma; useless sky-scraping; hair-splitting creeds; egregious demands upon credulity; without limitations as to colour, nationality, race, sex or social condition; - a religion merely of justice and love, the full flower of the complete brotherhood of man!