IX ADJOINING PARADISES

THE sketch on the foregoing page shows how any number of such Modern Paradises may be harmoniously joined, and that by the addition of every new one, all would derive far-reaching benefits by reason of further division of labor, extension of fine boulevards and by expanding the fields of trade, education, amusements and sociability. The whole country may in time be so blocked off as more and more of the people get ready for that higher and more harmonious life.

Instead of having the country platted off into square-mile sections containing 640 acres and surrounded by usually poor dirt roads as we now have it, the Modern Paradisers will have the country divided off into blocks four miles square containing about 10,000 acres, and each crossed in the center by firmly-paved highways.

I can visualize with my mind’s eye that long before the close of this Thousand Year Forecast the country will be criss-crossed with firmly-paved highways, beautifully fringed with orchards, gardens, lawns, parks, lakes, playgrounds, fountains, play schools, nut-bearing forest, and at every four-mile boulevard crossing there would be four artistic buildings where 40tourists, travelers, sight-seers and freighters can dine and lodge at cost of production the same as at home. The world is then run on the basis of mutual service instead of grasping Profit.

When we live a really civilized life, everybody will then be strong, healthy, wealthy, free and happy, and all without resorting to exploitation by profit, interest, rent or taxes.

Under such conditions of universal ownership, all the Modern Paradises would naturally vie with each other in the matter of producing the finest and most attractive scenery along their respective boulevards, so that the passers-by would continually see new, beautiful scenes as they passed along on foot, vehicles or airplanes. Every Modern Paradise keeps up its own eight miles of boulevards in fine shape.

On these firmly-paved highways, electric automobiles, large busses, and convenient trucks of all kinds and sizes best suited for the particular traffic will almost entirely supersede the railroads, street cars and draught animals. Delightful pleasure and valuable information will then naturally result from travel and sight-seeing of all kinds.

For a party of congenial friends to tour 10,000 miles in a large electric bus or other automobiles over firmly paved highways, would 41then be a mere incident of frequent occurrence, or for a couple to honeymoon for a month or two in a fine car when the bride pays her own bills would naturally be a great pleasure to both; for independence means pleasure and power.

We may thus see that the present generation has not yet started to really live an intelligent cultured life, and what will it be a little later on when we know how to get our Motive Power for driving autos, trucks and airplanes as well as all other machinery with the direct power that continually comes from the Sun to the Earth in endless quantities.