oisie, because it was the stronger, dragged down the nobility of
the sword; and the proletariat, because it is the strongest of all, can
and will drag down the bourgeoisie.

And in that day, for better or worse, the common man becomes the
master--for better, he believes. It is his intention to make the sum of
human happiness far greater. No man shall work for a bare living wage,
which is degradation. Every man shall have work to do, and shall be paid
exceedingly well for doing it. There shall be no slum classes, no
beggars. Nor shall there be hundreds of thousands of men and women
condemned, for economic reasons, to lives of celibacy or sexual
infertility. Every man shall be able to marry, to live in healthy,
comfortable quarters, and to have all he wants to eat as many times a day
as he wishes. There shall no longer be a life-and-death struggle for
food and shelter. The old heartless law of development shall be
annulled.

All of which is very good and very fine. And when these things have come
to pass, what then? Of old, by virtue of their weakness and inefficiency
in the struggle for food and shelter, the race was purged of its weak and
inefficient members. But this will no longer obtain. Under the new
order the weak and the progeny of the weak will have a chance for
survival equal to that of the strong and the progeny of the strong. This
being so, the premium upon strength will have been withdrawn, and on the
face of it the average strength of each generation, instead of continuing
to rise, will begin to decline.

When the common man's day shall have arrived, the new social institutions
of that day will prevent the weeding out of weakness and inefficiency.
All, the weak and the strong, will have an equal chance for procreation.
And the progeny of all, of the weak as well as the strong, will have an
equal chance for survival. This being so, and if no new effective law of
development be put into operation, then progress must cease. And not
only progress, for deterioration would at once set in. It is a pregnant
problem. What will be the nature of this new and most necessary law of
development? Can the common man pause long enough from his undermining
labors to answer? Since he is bent upon dragging down the bourgeoisie
and reconstructing society, can he so reconstruct that a premium, in some
unguessed way or other, will still be laid upon the strong and efficient
so that the human type will continue