these I claim very confidently, being sure that no reasonable
community could bear to be without such helps to a decent life.

Again, the claim for education involves a claim for abundant leisure,
which once more I make with confidence; because when once we have
shaken off the slavery of profit, labour would be organized so
unwastefully that no heavy burden would be laid on the individual
citizens; every one of whom as a matter of course would have to pay
his toll of some obviously useful work. At present you must note
that all the amazing machinery which we have invented has served only
to increase the amount of profit-bearing wares; in other words, to
increase the amount of profit pouched by individuals for their own
advantage, part of which profit they use as capital for the
production of more profit, with ever the same waste attached to it;
and part as private riches or means for luxurious living, which again
is sheer waste--is in fact to be looked on as a kind of bonfire on
which rich men burn up the product of the labour they have fleeced
from the workers beyond what they themselves can use. So I say that,
in spite of our inventions, no worker works under the present system
an hour the less on account of those labour-saving machines, so-
called. But under a happier state of things they would be used
simply for saving labour, with the result of a vast amount of leisure
gained for the community to be added to that gained by the avoidance
of the waste of useless luxury, and the abolition of the service of
commercial war.

And I may say that as to that leisure, as I should in no case do any
harm to any one with it, so I should often do some direct good to the
community with it, by practising arts or occupations for my hands or
brain which would give pleasure to many of the citizens; in other