All humanity must share in the future industrial democracy of the world.  For this it must be trained in intelligence and in appreciation of the good and the beautiful.  Present Big Business,—­that Science of Human Wants—­must be perfected by eliminating the price paid for waste, which is Interest, and for Chance, which is Profit, and making all income a personal wage for service rendered by the recipient; by recognizing no possible human service as great enough to enable a person to designate another as an idler or as a worker at work which he cannot do.  Above all, industry must minister to the wants of the many and not to the few, and the Negro, the Indian, the Mongolian, and the South Sea Islander must be among the many as well as Germans, Frenchmen, and Englishmen.

In this coming socialization of industry we must guard against that same tyranny of the majority that has marked democracy in the making of laws.  There must, for instance, persist in this future economics a certain minimum of machine-like work and prompt obedience and submission.  This necessity is a simple corollary from the hard facts of the physical world.  It must be accepted with the comforting thought that its routine need not demand twelve hours a day or even eight.  With Work for All and All at Work probably from three to six hours would suffice, and leave abundant time for leisure, exercise, study, and avocations.

But what shall we say of work where spiritual values and social distinctions enter?  Who shall be Artists and who shall be Servants in the world to come?  Or shall we all be artists and all serve?

The Second Coming

Three bishops sat in San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York, peering gloomily into three flickering fires, which cast and recast shuddering shadows on book-lined walls.  Three letters lay in their laps, which said: 

“And thou, Valdosta, in the land of Georgia, art not least among the princes of America, for out of thee shall come a governor who shall rule my people.”

The white bishop of New York scowled and impatiently threw the letter into the fire.  “Valdosta?” he thought,—­“That’s where I go to the governor’s wedding of little Marguerite, my white flower,—­” Then he forgot the writing in his musing, but the paper flared red in the fireplace.

“Valdosta?” said the black bishop of New Orleans, turning uneasily in his chair.  “I must go down there.  Those colored folk are acting strangely.  I don’t know where all this unrest and moving will lead to.  Then, there’s poor Lucy—­” And he threw the letter into the fire, but eyed it suspiciously as it flamed green.  “Stranger things than that have happened,” he said slowly, “’and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars ... for nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom.’”

In San Francisco the priest of Japan, abroad to study strange lands, sat in his lacquer chair, with face like soft-yellow and wrinkled parchment.  Slowly he wrote in a great and golden book:  “I have been strangely bidden to the Val d’ Osta, where one of those religious cults that swarm here will welcome a prophet.  I shall go and report to Kioto.”