The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-27
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A Leader From the Shores of
Greece Prophecies Its i
Coming. a. .a.,
Words for the Consideration of
the Worlds Weary
Workers.
They Should Flush Their Faces
and Stir Their Hearts in
the Cause.
,pondence San Francisco Truth.

Correspondence San Francisco Truth.
ATHENS, Greece July 20, 1888.
! zs"W Whoseever outside of the realm of
pure mathematics, pronounces the word,
impossible, lacks prudence. ."-ARAGO.
When the great labor cause shall have
triumphed, when socialism shall extend
it's benignant influence over all mankind,
then and not till then, will dawn the
golden age When men are compelled
to work but two hours daily in order to
provide for their wants then will inven-
ton and discovery follow upon each
other as the waves of the incoming sea.
Then will the giant forces of electricity
be studied in every home. And then,
ere many years flow by, under this new
impetus and for the general good, will be
discovered or invented among other
things, these three:
First, the discovery of motive force
which will take the place of steam, with
its cumbrous fuel of coal; second, the ln-
vention of aerial locomotion, which will
transport labor and its products at a
trifing cost of effort and time to any
part of tile planet, and which by annihi-
latng distance will speedily eXtinguish
national distinctions; and thirdly, the
manufacture of flesh and -four from the
elements by chemical process in the
laboratory, similar to that which Is now
performed within the bodies of the
animals and plants Food will then be
manufactured In unlimited quantities at
trifling ex pense, and our enlightened
posteritv will look back upon us who eat
oxen and sheep (when we cam just as
we look back upon cannibals.
Hunger and starvation being checked
by socialistic government will then be
entirely unknown, and the best part of
, human life will no longer be wasted in
the tedious process of Cultivating the
fields, Population will nightly increase
and the earth will be a garden smOthered
in blooming flowers. Governments
being socialistic will be connected with
quietude and regularity of club commit
tees The intrest which is now felt in
politics the science of theft and COM
merce (the art of robbery will be trans
ferred to SCIENCE; the latest news from
the laboratory of the chemist or the OBJ
servatory of the astronomer, Or the ex-
perimenting rooms of the biologist will
be eagerly discussed. Poetry and the
fine arts, the great the heroic, the beautl-
full and the true will take that place In
the human heart that the idle pomp and
the silly ceremonies of ecclesiasticism
now so vainly try to fill. Luxuries will
be common to all. None will be poor
and all will be rich.
The whole fair world will then mock
in grace and beauty tabled 1onia of the
, elder days.
Not only will man subdue the forces of
evil that are without; he will also subdue
these that are within. He will repress
the base instincts and propenslties which
he has inherited from the animals below;
he will obey the laws that are written on
his heart; he will worship the divinity
within him. AS our conscience forblds
us to commit actions which the con-
, science of the savage allows, so the moral
sense of our successors will stigmatlze as
crimes those offences against the intel
: lect which are sanctioned by ourselves.
Idleness and stupidity will be regarded
with adherence. Women will become
! the companions OF men, and the tutors
of their children. The whole world will
, be united by the same sentiment which
, united the primeval clan and which
, made its members think, feel and act as
one. Men will look upon this star, the
old gray earth as their fdtherland; its
= progress will be their ambition; the graft
. tude of others their reward. The very
: bodies which we now wear belong to the
+ lower animals; our minds have already
Y outgrown them; already we lock upon
+. them with contempt. A time will come
y when science will transform them by
8 means which we now cannot conjecture
p and which even explained to us, we
g could not now understand, just as the
y savage cannot understand electricity
: magnetism, steam.
r Disease will be extirpated, the. causes
L? of decay will be removed; the immortal
s lty of the body will be invented.
D And then the earth being small, man
: kind will migrate into space, and will
f cross the airless Saharas which separate
? planet from planet and sun from sun
e The earth will become holy land which
9 will be visited by pilgrims from all the
!. quarters of the universe.
D Finally, men will master the forces Of
: nature; they will become themselves the
: architects of systems, manufacturers oi
= worlds. Man then will be perfect, ne
then will be creator; he will therefore
be what the vulgar and ignorant, the
fools and shallow-pates, worship as
Q ood. But even then he will in reality