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do some work if he is to be contented. Weshall do more things for ourselves than is usualwith the rich to-day, only too glad to have smallduties and tasks and routines. But beyond this,we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin onthe butter—to make what work there is still tobe done to be as widely shared as possible.Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week mayput off the problem for a great while. Forthree hours a day is quite enough to satisfy theold Adam in most of us!

There are changes in other spheres too whichwe must expect to come. When the accumula-tion of wealth is no longer of high social im-portance, there will be great changes in thecode of morals. We shall be able to rid our-selves of many of the pseudo-moral principleswhich have hag-ridden us for two hundred years,by which we have exalted some of the mostdistasteful of human qualities into the positionof the highest virtues. We shall be able toafford to dare to assess the money-motive at itstrue value. The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money asa means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognised for what it is, a some-what disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities whichone hands over with a shudder to the specialistsin mental disease. All kinds of social customsand economic practices, affecting the distribu-tion of wealth and of economic rewards andpenalties, which we now maintain at all costs,

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