With the natural resources of the world, the machinery already
invented, a rational organization of production and distribution, and
an equally rational elimination of waste, the able-bodied workers
would not have to labour more than two or three hours per day to feed
everybody, clothe everybody, house everybody, educate everybody, and
give a fair measure of little luxuries to everybody. There would be
no more material want and wretchedness, no more children toiling out
their lives, no more men and women and babes living like beasts and
dying like beasts. Not only would matter be mastered, but the
machine would be mastered. In such a day incentive would be finer
and nobler than the incentive of to-day, which is the incentive of
the stomach. No man, woman, or child, would be impelled to action by
an empty stomach. On the contrary, they would be impelled to action
as a child in a spelling match is impelled to action, as boys and
girls at games, as scientists formulating law, as inventors applying
law, as artists and sculptors painting canvases and shaping clay, as
poets and statesmen serving humanity by singing and by statecraft.
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