What a marvellous picture the world will present one thousand years from now!
The earth will be adequately populated.
Science will have conquered disease almost entirely. Each woman will be the mother of two children. She will not bring five or six into the world in order that two or three may live.
Competition will be replaced by emulation. The intelligent servant of government will work as loyally and enthusiastically for his government and for the people as the boy at college now works for his college football team.
The human mind will have wandered on many leagues in its search for a satisfying religion, getting always nearer to a clear conception of the grandeur of the universe, and further away from the superstition necessary to the moral control of a brutal semi-civilization.
Human beings will have learned that the noblest thing one man can do is to work for others.
Each will gladly contribute all his talent and strength to the welfare of all.
All will gladly recognize, applaud and richly reward the special ability of the individual.
There will be no poverty. Willingness to work will insure a comfortable livelihood. Education will have developed the average human intellect far beyond our conception. Nine-tenths of the human race have been able to read only within the past few years. What will a thousand years of universal education do? ——
The end of the leases of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will find many of our problems solved.