Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
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page 68 of 366 (18%)
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semi-civilization.
Human beings will have learned that the noblest thing one man can do is to work for others. Each will gladly contribute all his talent and strength to the welfare of all. All will gladly recognize, applaud and richly reward the special ability of the individual. There will be no poverty. Willingness to work will insure a comfortable livelihood. Education will have developed the average human intellect far beyond our conception. Nine-tenths of the human race have been able to read only within the past few years. What will a thousand years of universal education do? ---- The end of the leases of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will find many of our problems solved. It will find, however, the real work of man just beginning. The abstract work of the intellect, the proper organization of society as expressed in human passions, the study of the wonderful and beautiful universe outside of our own little planet, will then begin with the conquest of our material conditions. |
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