The answer to the questions just propounded is
that, while scientific accomplishment has in the last
few generations been regarded as a proper study of
mankind, we have not yet deemed it our duty to
provide our people with comfort. As long as science
was a forbidden domain, science made little prog-
ress. As long as men continue to regard such a

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thing as an ample supply of clothing a matter to be
resigned to haphazard effort, conducted by unor-
ganised and incompletely informed individuals work-
ing in opposition to each other for private gain, the
masses of people will remain ill-dad. That is as
true as what Machiavelli long ago wrote as to the
impossibility of conducting successful national mili-
tary operations by purchasing the services of con-
dottieri. No nation will ever be well housed, well
clothed, well fed, and well cultured while it is
content to cherish industrial condottieri. Not un-
til the soldier of fortune is as much an anachronism
in the industrial as in the military world will there
be an output of commodities of such dimensions as
to abolish material poverty, and of such rapidity
and ease of production as to abolish the distinction
between classes by creating a universal leisure won
through the ordered scientific use of economic
appliances.
