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So it will be some day with us who are now engaged in the
detailed organization of the little home which we call the earth.
We are fixing up our moral plumbing--fighting poverty, injustice,
and, above all, ignorance. We are fighting the meanness that
comes of competition and the greater meanness that is based upon
the dread of poverty in the future. Some of us are piling up
millions that we can never use, while others suffer for lack of
that which could be abundantly supplied.
All these little earthly questions that seem so big will be
settled in time.
But a few years in the sight of Time--a few hundred centuries,
perhaps, as we count them--and our earthly habitation will have
been made fit to live in. We shall have eliminated the
unfit--not by killing them off, but by educating them. We shall
have solved the question of poverty by solving the question of
production, and especially of distribution. We shall have
developed a citizenship capable of earnest work, of sobriety and
of moral decency, without the spur of want, imprisonment or the
scaffold as necessary adjuncts.
In time the human race will have solved its little problems
here--the problems that seem so vast to-day.
When that time comes we shall be like the man who has put his
house in order, and our thoughts will not be confined to this
little piece of ground.
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