ABSTRACT
The great increase of productive power which has accrued to people in recent years ought to enable people to make a happy choice between three alternatives—to become richer, while working no harder than before; to be as rich, while working less hard; and to be as rich, or richer, while making labour less irksome and for more men a positive source of pleasure. A cipher cannot feel cold or hunger, it cannot be happy or miserable, a decent human being or a shivering wreck. The principal function of these lesser priests is to explain to the people how things work, and often they fall so much in love with the intricate workings of the system which they are called upon to describe that they spend their whole lives devising imaginary intricacies of a still more intriguing kind, and racking their brains to find answers to their own fictitious puzzles.
