The story of the world a thousand years hence

IV CITYLESS AND COUNTRYLESS

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THE World a Thousand Years Hence will be practically a cityless and countryless World. The people, instead of living in crowded, noisy, unhealthy and immoral cities and in lonely, isolated country homes, as we now do, will then live in social groups on large Landed Estates (Modern Paradises), where they are surrounded by beautiful flowers, pure air, fresh water, life-giving vegetation and a host of congenial Co-operators as equal partners, and all have their daily work in, or near their homes. There is no longer valid use for the existence of cities. Formerly when people had to wall themselves in for protection cities were useful, but that time is long past.

Briefly stated, each group of refined men, women and children Co-operators lives in a 19beautiful Co-operative Mansion with public kitchen, dining room, laundry, nurseries, etc. All the members of the group are equal partners and co-operate industrially, domestically and also largely parentally in the way of raising and educating the children.

Every man, woman and child worker (and every able-bodied person is a worker), whether married or single, also personally draws his or her own pay checks for the co-operative labor each performs for the Association or Co-partnership, whether that labor be industrial, domestic or exclusively parental.

It is not difficult to see that such harmonious co-operation makes every man, woman and child free and independent financially, industrially, socially and parentally, and that each worker under such favorable conditions of industrial and domestic co-operation can easily produce at least $10 worth of wealth in a three-hour workday at pleasant self-employment of his or her own choice. The method of working in Modern Paradise is highly efficient and remarkably productive, but not rushing as we now have it under the profit-grabbing wage-system.

Men and women as equal owners work side by side, often as lovers, which turns work into 20delightful play. Intelligence, freedom, efficiency and universal prosperity are combined in the highest conceivable degree in Modern Paradise as we shall now further explain on the theory that the easy obtainment of material subsistence is the basic principle of human welfare and approximate contentment.

21CO-OPERATIVE LANDED ESTATE

(Modern Paradise)

(Fig. 2)

A diagram of land management. The Boulevards split the image into four parts, both vertically and horizontally. On either side of every boulevard there is a thin strip of Walks. On one side of the Walks, there's a thicker stripe of variously Gardens, Lakes, Forests, Orchards, Playgrounds, Play-houses, Fountains and Parks. Occupying the rest of the of the space is Farm Land. Lastly, on each of the four corners of the middle intersectino there are four buildings: A Mansion Factory, Warehouse and Powerplant.

This big Farm is crossed in the center by firmly-paved boulevards. The white strips on both sides of the boulevards are each a 1,000 feet wide, for garden, orchard, greenhouse, play-schools, nut-bearing forest, vine-clad trees, etc. It is the nucleus of Ideal Democracy.