honoured by their fellow-men.

'This desire is strongest in the most capable men--the men of genius.
Therefore, under Socialism the principal incentive to great work will
be the same as now--Honour and Praise. But, under the present system,
Honour and Praise can be bought with money, and it does not matter much
how the money was obtained.

'Under Socialism it will be different. The Cross of Honour and the
Laurel Crown will not be bought and sold for filthy lucre. They will
be the supreme rewards of Virtue and of Talent.'

'Anyone else like to be flattened Out?' inquired Philpot.

'What would you do with them what spends all their money in drink?'
asked Slyme.

'I might reasonably ask you, "What's done with them or what you propose
to do with them now?" There are many men and women whose lives are so
full of toil and sorrow and the misery caused by abject poverty, who
are so shut out from all that makes life worth living, that the time
they spend in the public house is the only ray of sunshine in their
cheerless lives. Their mental and material poverty is so great that
they are deprived of and incapable of understanding the intellectual
and social pleasures of civilization... Under Socialism there will be
no such class as this. Everyone will be educated, and social life and
rational pleasure will be within the reach of all. Therefore we do not
believe that there will be such a class. Any individuals who abandoned
themselves to such a course would be avoided by their fellows; but if
they became very degraded, we should still remember that they were our
brother men and women, and we should regard them as suffering from a
disease inherited from their uncivilized forefathers and try to cure
them by placing them under some restraint: in an institute for
instance.'

'Another good way to deal with 'em,' said Harlow, 'would be to allow
them double pay, so as they could drink themselves to death. We could
do without the likes of them.'

'Call the next case,' said Philpot.

'This 'ere abundance that you're always talking about,' said Crass, you
can't be sure that it would be possible to produce all that. You're
only assoomin' that it could be done.'

Barrington pointed to the still visible outlines of the 'Hoblong' that
Owen had drawn on the wall to illustrate a previous lecture.

'Even under the present silly system of restricted production, with the
majority of the population engaged in useless, unproductiv