Workmen's advocate., 1886-12-19
THE SOCIALIST SPIRIT.
Ertract from Gronlunds "Co.operdtire
 COmHtOn,reahH.'
CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK

When the Cooperative Commonwealth is achieved, there will be no room for any more revolutions. For revolutions are caused by the clashing of class inter- ests, and all class-distinct0ns are forever abolished the moment the lowest class is fully incorporated into Society,"
 But there will be plenty of room for progress, for further evolution. Even our Commonwealth, though it may take long period to develop it, is but step of the evolution. One Commonwealth after another may decay and disappear, but they will all contribute to the ur- building of the Organism of Humanity.
 With Organized Humanity will be evolved the Coming Religion, though we already noticed it in the preceding chap ter, because people persist in mixing up morals and religion. But morals really relates to the social organism t makes the good citizen. Religion relates to Hu- manity and mdhes the saint. The Con- ing Religion will make us feel that we are here for the sake of Humanity with whose fate it may be found that we are personally far more concerned than is now supposed; it will make holiness con sist in identifying ourselves with Human ity-the redeemed form of man-as the lover merges himself in the beloved. h. dividualism: the deception that we have been born into this world each for the sake of himself, or family, friend or kin dred, tSeifness will be acknowledged to be the satanic element of our nature.
 We therefore more than doubt, we deny, Wards proposition that individual happiness is tie end of human life. If 1t is, the existences that were made mis- erable Tn order that mankind might be trained up to Social Cooperation were failures; they are decidedly not failures. if, as are held, the end of the individual existence IS to further the evolution of Humanity, in whose fate it may be found, as we repeat. that we have greater stake than is supposed. But happiness is fact; as an incident of life and not an object of pursuit, it is blessed fact. If IS to man what the odor is to the rose.
 That the New Commonwealth will very much ditfuse and increase individual happiness there can be no doubt. It will make possible the harmonious exercise and deveiopment of all human faculties in every body-that itself is happiness It will, by banishing care and giving Ieis. ure, enable everyone to become familiar with all that is known about the universe and to explore its perpetual wonders and pore over its numberless riddles for him self-and that IS more than happiness, it Is rupture. Finally. it will be the grand est vehicle for serving Humanity and thereby generate the purest hapniness l perfect bliss.
 But this bliss it is even Rotr our nriv;- ! lege to obtain. We have the choice In live as lndividualists and on our death ! bed look back in despair on drearv
 hateful life of play acting. or as Socialists 1 ill our existences with those serious moods that make the grand tone of life and m the hour of death stand on tbe mountaln-top, as it were, and see with entranced eyes the rays of the Sun that 1 soon will illumine the dark valleys haIo,y
 l, for my part, deem it worth ten cruci- iixlons to win for my memory I fraction of the adonng love which millions of tba noblesf men and women have felt for 2 | Jesus. ioi a THE END.