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There
should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could
claim as its sole property, a place where all human beings of
goodwill, sincere in their aspiration, could live freely as
citizens of the world, obeying one single authority, that of
the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord, harmony, where
all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to
conquer the causes of his suffering and misery, to surmount
his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations
and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and
the care for progress would get precedence over the
satisfaction of desires and passions, the seeking for
pleasures and material enjoyments.
In this place, children would be able to
grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their
soul. Education would be given, not with a view to passing
examinations and getting certificates and posts, but for
enriching the existing faculties and bringing forth new ones.
In this place titles and positions would be supplanted by
opportunities to serve and organize. The needs of the body
will be provided for equally in the case of each and everyone.
In the general organisation intellectual, moral and spiritual
superiority will find expression not in the enhancement of the
pleasures and powers of life but in the increase of duties and
responsibilities.
Artistic beauty in all forms, painting,
sculpture, music, literature, will be available equally to
all, the opportunity to share in the joys they bring being
limited solely by each one's capacities and not by social or
financial position.
For in this ideal place money would be
no more the sovereign lord. Individual merit will have a
greater importance than the value due to material wealth and
social position. Work would not be there as the means of
gaining one's livelihood, it would be the means whereby to
express oneself, develop one's capacities and possibilities,
while doing at the same time service to the whole group, which
on its side would provide for each one's subsistence and for
the field of his work.
In brief, it would be a place where the
relations among human beings, usually based almost exclusively
upon competition and strife, would be replaced by relations of
emulation for doing better, for collaboration, relations of
real brotherhood.

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