Two causes prove to the people of the wealthy classes the necessity
for a change of life: the requirements of their individual welfare,
and of the welfare of those most nearly connected with them, which
cannot be satisfied in the path in which they now stand; and the
necessity of satisfying the voice of conscience, the impossibility of
accomplishing which is obvious in their present course. These
causes, taken together, should lead people of the wealthy classes to
alter their mode of life, to such a change as shall satisfy their
well-being and their conscience.

And there is only one such change possible: they must cease to
deceive, they must repent, they must acknowledge that labor is not a
curse, but the glad business of life. "But what will be the result
if I do toil for ten, or eight, or five hours at physical work, which
thousands of peasants will gladly perform for the money which I
possess?" people say to this.

The first, simplest, and indubitable result will be, that you will
become a more cheerful, a healthier, a more alert, and a better man,
and that you will learn to know the real life, from which you have
hidden yourself, or which has been hidden from you.

The second result will be, that, if you possess a conscience, it will
not only cease to suffer as it now suffers when it gazes upon the
toil of others, the significance of which we, through ignorance,
either always exaggerate or depreciate, but you will constantly
experience a glad consciousness that, with every day, you are doing
more and more to satisfy the demands of your conscience, and you will
escape from that fearful position of such an accumulation of evil