Schools and nurseries will be scientific and perfect. The care
of children will be the duty of the State. Very poor women will
be unknown, and unknown will be the woman burdened with the
isolated care of children in an isolated household.
In those distant days woman will do her share of the world's
intellectual and artistic work. Physical work of all kinds will
have been practically annihilated by machinery. Our big,
muscular bodies, developed hitherto with an eye to pursuing wild
animals, carrying heavy burdens and fighting each other like
dog-apes in the forest, will be refined and very different from
their present brutality.
It will be an agreeable earth, a very agreeable and much improved
human race. ----
Those millennial days, which are sure to come, will find us with
our little earthly problems solved. We shall have outgrown
our infancy, and, like a child that has learned to walk and
balance itself, we shall understand the forces of nature and use
them.
Our principal occupation will be harmonious life on this planet
and persistent investigation of the marvels of the universe
outside of our own little sphere.
As centuries have gone by on earth, power has dwelt with
different classes of human beings. In the days of the
Troglodytes, when one gentleman would crack another gentleman's
thigh-bone to get at the marrow, the most important man of course
was the one best able with physical force to murder his fellows.
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