of self-respect by
trying to evade the small portion of work necessary to pay for your
keeping, then you shall be judged mentally and morally unsound, and not
fit to associate with respectable people, he will not only do all that
is expected of him, but will try to out-work everybody else in order to
secure the highest esteem of his fellow beings.

"The system of individual accumulation as now practiced throughout the
entire world is a most brutal plan of existence. It is either directly
or indirectly responsible for all the crime and suffering humanity has
to contend with. It causes men to forget their souls in the desperate
struggle for a mere living. It saps the strength of the individual and
then censures him for being weak. It robs him of the fruits of his labor
and then blames him for being poor. It forces him to steal and then
punishes him for being a thief. It drives him to all sorts of crime, and
then condemns him for being a criminal. It encourages and gives
everything to the strong and discourages by taking everything from the
weak. It originated with the primitive savages, and is the most beastly
and debasing system conceivable. It keeps mankind in the very lowest
stage of intelligence, and in a condition of helplessness on one side
and slavery on the other. It has been saturated with so many idiotic
laws and so-called remedies since its inception that it now resembles a
great network of legalized corruption. Laws for this and laws for that,
and laws to offset other laws are enacted until the power of the human
race is wasted, in either making or breaking the innumerable edicts made
to uphold a weak and rotten system.

"You cannot make right by patching up wrong. A new and effective system
cannot be created by changing the features of an old and putrid one. An
entirely new foundation must be constructed in order to insure solidity
and strength. That was the reason the Sagemen uprooted entirely the
cancerous system of individual accumulation and planted in its place the
scientific and mutually beneficial plan of united labor and equal
distribution as decreed by Natural Law.

"The Apeman being the foremost of living particles on earth at the
present time, and nature being capable, willing and generous enough to
abundantly provide for all of his needs, he should immediately cast off
the yoke of greed and devote his time and best efforts to a nobler work
than the petty accumulation of plunder."

CHAPTER XIX