Goliah
left all the multitudinous details of reconstruction to these social
thinkers. He wanted them to prove that they were able to do it, and
they proved it. It was due to their initiative that the white plague
was stamped out from the world. It was due to them, and in spite of
a deal of protesting from the sentimentalists, that all the extreme
hereditary inefficients were segregated and denied marriage.
Goliah had nothing whatever to do with the instituting of the
colleges of invention. This idea originated practically
simultaneously in the minds of thousands of social thinkers. The
time was ripe for the realization of the idea, and everywhere arose
the splendid institutions of invention. For the first time the
ingenuity of man was loosed upon the problem of simplifying life,
instead of upon the making of money-earning devices. The affairs of
life, such as house-cleaning, dish and window-washing, dust-removing,
and scrubbing and clothes-washing, and all the endless sordid and
necessary details, were simplified by invention until they became
automatic.
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