The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
The White Spark: A New Book, Giving Out a New Philosophy and the Mysteries of the Universe. The Handbook of the Millennium and the New Dispensation
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We have previously stated that FOUR HOURS labor per day was enough for
any one, and this would carry on the world's industry adequately and
to prove this we give an excerpt from an article by the great English
Divine--Rev. R. J. Campbell, his statistics prove that POVERTY IS
UNNECESSARY and that wage earners can be paid enough to buy what they
wish to make happiness--, pianos and other so-called luxuries, and
automobiles could of course be substituted for pianos if their desires
should require such.
At the present price of automobiles they are within reach of the man
who will give up drinking and using tobacco or other narcotics and I
want to say that I believe riding in one of the new type steel bodied
automobiles with a magneto ignition is a great health augmenter as
these cars when running become charged with electricity and I quite
often get a shock from one of my automobiles if I happen to touch part
of my hand to the body of the car while the other part has hold of
the side shift lever. This statical electricity has been proved by
Dr. W. J. Morton, of New York City, to be a wonderful therapeutical
agency. When properly supplied to the body it causes the blood discs
to take up more oxygen from the air and augments the power of the
vital apparatus. (See his address published in the November, 1893,
Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.)
Riding in a carriage or car will aid the circulation of the body
fluids without waste of our own energy, the motions massage the body,
the same as muscular action.
Work is a benefit to us but how much do we need is a question,--a
sick person can not work and a person's training and condition must
regulate this,--too much work draws the vital force from the vital
organs and mental work is absolutely injurious in sickness, the brain
draws on the vitality to the detriment of the vital organs of the
body, yet again the cultivated mind has a power to govern the base
faculties which debilitate the body.
Part of the English Divine's Article Which We Have Referred to:
"One of the strangest paradoxes about this period of
destructiveness through which we are passing is that there
is very little dire poverty about. It has taught me a
lesson, a lesson which probably the workers as a class
are assimilating too, namely, that destitution and the
degradation which so generously accompanies it =could be
got rid of in a month= in time of peace if we were only
in earnest to do it.