works for profit. The products of the toil of all the
inhabitants are for the public larder and other necessities and
even luxuries.

As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism,
sweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and
the long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on
your Earth are unknown on our planet.

No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no
place in the Martian mind. The wants of all are supplied by the
Commonwealth, and each one contributes his best efforts to the
common good, and in return each individual is supplied his every
want. This is in accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye
first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you."


CHAPTER V.

PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its
Creator, who provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His
creatures. No individual lays claim to property in the sense
that you Earth dwellers do.

Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material
universe, but only for a season. Man comes into material being
to express life and acquire an individuality, after which he