No towns started in any other way shall have railroad or mail facilities.

When once a municipality is created in the way I have described, it shall provide, in the plat of the town, parks for recreation; no lot shall contain less than half an acre; the streets shall be very wide and planted with fruit trees in double and treble rows.  In the center of the town shall be erected a town hall, with an assembly chamber, arranged like a theater, and large enough to seat all the inhabitants.  The building shall also contain free public baths, a library, a reading-room, public offices, etc.  The municipality shall divide the people into groups of five hundred families each, and for each group they shall furnish a physician, to be paid for out of the general taxes.  They shall also provide in the same way concerts and dramatic representations and lectures, free of charge.  The hours of labor are limited to eight each day; and there are to be two holidays in the week, Wednesday and Sundays. just as the state is able to carry the mails for less than each man could carry them for himself, so the cost of physicians and entertainments procured by the municipality will be much less than under the old system.

We do not give any encouragement to labor-saving inventions, although we do not discard them.  We think the end of government should be—­not cheap goods or cheap men, but happy families.  If any man makes a serviceable invention the state purchases it at a reasonable price for the benefit of the people.

Men are elected to whom all disputes are referred; each of the contestants selects a man, and the three act together as arbitrators.  Where a jury is demanded the defeated party pays all the expenses.  We hold that it is not right that all the peaceable citizens should be taxed to enable two litigious fellows to quarrel.  Where a man is convicted of crime he is compelled to work out all the cost of his trial and conviction, and the cost of his support as a prisoner, before he can be discharged.  If vice will exist, it must be made self-supporting.

[An extract from Gabriel’s journal-five years later.]

I have just left a very happy group upon the veranda—­Estella and our two darling little children; Christina and her three flaxen-haired beauties.  Max is away on his sheep farm.  My mother and Mrs. and Mr. Phillips are reading, or playing with the children.  The sun is shining brightly, and the birds are singing.  I enter my library to make this entry in my journal.

God has greatly blessed us and all our people.  There were a few conservatives who strenuously objected at first to our reforms; but we mildly suggested to them that if they were not happy—­and desired it—­we would transfer them to the outside world, where they could enjoy the fruits of the time-hallowed systems they praised so much.  They are now the most vigorous supporters of the new order of things.  And this is one of the merits of your true conservative:  if you can once get him into the right course he will cling to it as tenaciously as he formerly clung to the wrong.  They are not naturally bad men; their brains are simply incapable of suddenly adjusting themselves to new conceptions.