It was due to them, and in spite of a deal of protesting from
the sentimentalists, that all the extreme hereditary inefficients were
segregated and denied marriage.

Goliah had nothing whatever to do with the instituting of the colleges of
invention. This idea originated practically simultaneously in the minds
of thousands of social thinkers. The time was ripe for the realization
of the idea, and everywhere arose the splendid institutions of invention.
For the first time the ingenuity of man was loosed upon the problem of
simplifying life, instead of upon the making of money-earning devices.
The affairs of life, such as house-cleaning, dish and window-washing,
dust-removing, and scrubbing and clothes-washing, and all the endless
sordid and necessary details, were simplified by invention until they
became automatic. We of to-day cannot realize the barbarously filthy and
slavish lives of those that lived prior to 1925.

The international government of the world was another idea that sprang
simultaneously into the minds of thousands. The successful realization
of this idea was a surprise to many, but as a surprise it was nothing to
that received by the mildly protestant sociologists and biologists when
irrefutable facts exploded the doctrine of Malthus. With leisure and joy
in the world; with an immensely higher standard of living; and with the
enormous spaciousness of opportunity for recreation, development, and
pursuit of beauty and nobility and all the higher attributes, the
birth-rate fell, and fell astoundingly. People ceased breeding like
cattle. And better than that, it was immediately noticeable that a
higher average of children was being born. The doctrine of Malthus was
knocked into a cocked hat--or flung to the scrap-heap, as Goliah would
have put it.

All that Goliah had predicted that the intelligence of mankind could
accomplish with the mechanical energy at its disposal, came to pass.
Human dissatisfaction practically disappeared. The elderly people were
the great grumblers; but when they were honourably pensioned by society,
as they passed the age limit for work, the great majority ceased
grumbling. They found themselves better off in their idle old days under
the new regime, enjoying vastly more pleasure and comforts than they had
in their busy and toilsome youth under the old regime. The younger
generation had easily adapted itself too the changed order, and the very
young had never known any