labour
be reduced to a three-hour day, and joy and laughter be made
universal. And when that is accomplished, not by me but by the
intelligence of mankind, then I shall make a present to the world of
a new mechanical energy. This is my discovery. This Energon is
nothing more nor less than the cosmic energy that resides in the
solar rays. When it is harnessed by mankind it will do the work of
the world. There will be no more multitudes of miners slaving out
their lives in the bowels of the earth, no more sooty firemen and
greasy engineers. All may dress in white if they so will. The work
of life will have become play and young and old will be the children
of joy, and the business of living will become joy; and they will
compete, one with another, in achieving ethical concepts and
spiritual heights, in fashioning pictures and songs, and stories, in
statecraft and beauty craft, in the sweat and the endeavour of the
wrestler and the runner and the player of games--all will compete,
not for sordid coin and base material reward, but for the joy that
shall be theirs in the development and vigour of flesh and in the
development and keenness of spirit. All will be joy-smiths, and
their task shall be to beat out laughter from the ringing anvil of
life.

"And now one word for the immediate future. On New Year's Day all
nations shall disarm, all fortresses and war-ships shall be
dismantled, and all armies shall be disbanded.

"GOLIAH."

On New Year's Day all the world disarmed. The millions of soldiers and
sailors and workmen in the standing armies, in the navies, and in the
countless arsenals, machine-shops, and factories for the manufacture of
war machinery, were dismissed to their homes. These many millions of
men, as well as their costly war machinery, had hitherto been supported
on the back of labour. They now went into useful occupations, and the
released labour giant heaved a mighty sigh of relief. The policing of
the world was left to the peace officers and was purely social, whereas
war had been distinctly anti-social.

Ninety per cent. of the crimes against society had been crimes against
private property. With the passing of private property, at least in the
means of production, and with the organization of industry that gave
every man a chance, the