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 188 temperance, prudence, and the gift of sympathy. The world would be transformed without any invasion of personal liberty. Poverty, as we understand it, would disappear. Strong men and free men, with personal independence unabated, yet imbued with mutual respect, would associate and dissociate and re-associate themselves as occasion offered and reason suggested, working out an elevation of the common life through individual advancement. The individualist has his ideal, and there is an inheritance of thcefuture which he, too, can regard with hope. Life remains rich, nay, is richer than ever, in variety and beauty; for while the toil which is necessary to support existence is abated, and the condition of all has been raised, character and independence, vivacity, self-reliance and courage—all the elements that constitute the personal genius of each citizen have been strengthened to the ever-increasing enhancement of the charm and grace and wellbeing of humanity.