crimes against private property practically
ceased. The police forces everywhere were reduced repeatedly and again
and again. Nearly all occasional and habitual criminals ceased
voluntarily from their depredations. There was no longer any need for
them to commit crime. They merely changed with changing conditions. A
smaller number of criminals was put into hospitals and cured. And the
remnant of the hopelessly criminal and degenerate was segregated. And
the courts in all countries were likewise decreased in number again and
again. Ninety-five per cent. of all civil cases had been squabbles over
property, conflicts of property-rights, lawsuits, contests of wills,
breaches of contract, bankruptcies, etc. With the passing of private
property, this ninety-five per cent. of the cases that cluttered the
courts also passed. The courts became shadows, attenuated ghosts,
rudimentary vestiges of the anarchistic times that had preceded the
coming of Goliah.

The year 1925 was a lively year in the world's history. Goliah ruled the
world with a strong hand. Kings and emperors journeyed to Palgrave
Island, saw the wonders of Energon, and went away, with the fear of death
in their hearts, to abdicate thrones and crowns and hereditary licenses.
When Goliah spoke to politicians (so-called "statesmen"), they obeyed . . .
or died. He dictated universal reforms, dissolved refractory
parliaments, and to the great conspiracy that was formed of mutinous
money lords and captains of industry he sent his destroying angels. "The
time is past for fooling," he told them. "You are anachronisms. You
stand in the way of humanity. To the scrap-heap with you." To those
that protested, and they were many, he said: "This is no time for
logomachy. You can argue for centuries. It is what you have done in the
past. I have no time for argument. Get out of the way."

With the exception of putting a stop to war, and of indicating the broad
general plan, Goliah did nothing. By putting the fear of death into the
hearts of those that sat in the high places and obstructed progress,
Goliah made the opportunity for the unshackled intelligence of the best
social thinkers of the world to exert itself. Goliah left all the
multitudinous details of reconstruction to these social thinkers. He
wanted them to prove that they were able to do it, and they proved it.
It was due to their initiative that the white plague was stamped out from
the world.