Wages, 33 ---- and co-operation, 51 War, abolition of, predicted, 76 ---- correspondence, 74, note, 76, 78, note ----, its supposed advantages discussed, 226 Waste by alcohol, 215 ---- by animal food, 215 ----, illness regarded as a, 214 ----, sewage disposal a, 215 ----, war as a, 219 (see Economy) Water, electrolysis of, 8 Weaklings, perpetuation of, 125 Wealth, limitation of, 49 Wellington, 5 Wells, H. G., 5, 20 Whetham, W. C., 116, note Woman (her political influence), 283 ---- (her political influence in America), 284 ---- (her political influence in New Zealand), 284 ----, position of, A.D. 2000, 283, (see Law and Marriage) Workmen, condition of, 52 ----, trains for, 15 NOTES [1] Drains, it might be supposed, would disappear altogether from the scheme of things in favour of some kind of destructors. For reasons connected with a more enlightened view than we have yet reached of certain aspects of terrestrial economy, however, I think they will, with modifications, still exist. [2] The chief difficulty in utilising the useful integument of wheat disappears when the whole grain is finely milled. [3] It is necessary to say here, as an offset to possible misconstruction, that the word "evolution" has been purposely abstained from. The processes of evolution are far slower than the changes here contemplated. The latter are voluntary and purposeful, involving no constructional alteration in the physical frame of man, but only functional modifications, intentionally inaugurated and pursued. [4] There is a contrivance already in existence which not only weighs what is placed upon it, but can also be made to calculate the value of the goods at any desired rate per ounce, pound or hundredweight. [5] A practical objection to this principle may be here anticipated and answered. Politicians may say that for any one nation to be the pioneer in the adoption of such a policy would have the effect of driving trade and manufactures into other countries where the restriction did not exist. But there are so many highly necessary reforms open to a similar objection that I think there is no doubt that ultimately the jurists of all nations will agree upon some arrangement for universal legislation, whereby laws not affecting the relations of one country with another will be simultaneously enacted by a comity of nations. We have already one very imperfect example of such a procedure in the Convention against bounty-helped sugar. [6] Not of course in the artistic sense of the word; nor is the supersession of art by optical process in the least contemplated here. The psychological interest of art will have appreciators more and more numerous in virtue of the diffusion of culture confidently anticipated. [7] Ante, Chapter I. [8] Ante, Chapter I. [9] Kipling: The Five Nations.