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 OBJ'EC OF DEVELOPMENT 351 population, and to prevent transmissioa of congenital diseases, and possibly to prevent immigration and multi- plication in the country of races with a lower standard of living. The social ideal of Robert Owen, which received a new interpretation with moral sanction by Ruskin, and is being elaborated by many thinkers and social innovators to-day as what Professor Geddes has termed the neetechnic order, the confusion and will have 'prevailed. waste of competition Instead of and the iself. The sae, hrough he and local authorities, will ake cnral governmen responsibility for the welfare o! children right ideals o! life--a strong moral conceptions, and ambitions, as the inhabitants. Education will character, well as give just he on public amenities, paid at, rates, being provided for all men. The labor exchange intellectualscapacity to strive successfully for the chosen end. The state will see that no person able and willing to work goes without all city taken the control and provision of all special technical and trade education. The sanitary conditions of life will have been revolutionized--slums being abolished, cities town-planned ideal. This will and conforming to the garden result not only from state action, but from the development of social responsibility o! aristocrats always have although the been greatly and &II modified plutocrats. aristocracy 'o[ inequalities of by "windfall" profits. Thim he ideal ,population We shall probably intellec and wealth, wealth abolishing will have nnearned or will not be numerous, increasing probably less han one per cen per annum, bu evenly frm he higher and lower classes. It will be the opportunity, work say, two-thirds of trade persons out of employ- system will have under- struggle for existence, society will consciously organize