unity to give this new system of co-operative agriculture a
thorough trial.

"Having once become practically interested, these people would soon
learn to consider the object and purpose of life from a new standpoint.
From this new concept of the meaning and necessities of life, they would
perceive that it did not require the hoarding of much wealth, in order
to satisfy them. The insurance system in providing for the wants of old
age, would forever banish the haunting specter of a pauper's death in
the poor-house. They would then realize that money, was not so precious
as a human life! They would clearly understand that money was an
absolute necessity, only to those under the competitive system who had
lost confidence in each other, and faith in the fact of a common
brotherhood for humanity!

"They would soon respond to happier surroundings, in every way so
conducive to a natural, soul growth, and to the harmonious unfoldment of
the individual from within. In this unfoldment, a new meaning for
immortality would come to them. Spiritual law would become operative. It
would teach them that, as immortal beings, as cosmic units of the larger
cosmos--The Great Over Soul--they could not become totally depraved,
even under pressure of evil conditions of the most degrading character;
no matter how much their spiritual natures had been stained or starved.

"With this new standard as a guide, there would come an inspiration to
strive for the attainment of a higher, purer, better life. A life more
in harmony with the design of an All-Wise Creator! Angry, antagonistic
feelings, against hitherto competitors, would disappear. The world would
wear a smile instead of a frown! Brotherly love between man and man,
would become the rule in place of the exception! Gold would lose its
charm! Avarice would pass away! Selfish instincts, born of bitter years
under a cruel system would soon follow! Long dormant, spiritual natures
would be awakened! A new spiritual growth would take place! A vastly
wider, mental, and spiritual horizon, would be added to the wisdom of
the individual! In the light of this wisdom would come the discovery,
that the virtue of right living, bears the seeds of a perpetuity, which
begets true and lasting happiness! An overwhelming answer in the
affirmative, from every point of view, to the question, does it pay to
be unselfish?

"With higher ideals of life and its duties, these physically, mentally,
and spiritually ema