What are we after with the new life, economically?
We are after a society
Where you can easily maintain
Every necessity of life
On a small income:
Food, clothing,
Shelter, tools,
And somebody to love.
This way of life will mean
That whether you run the factory
Or work on the factory floor, it is the same.
It will vanquish the fear of loss
And make the top and the bottom bold
To do the right thing, no matter the cost.
And doing the right thing
Will make the world better.
And what means do we employ
To bring about such a change?
Not force, Not politics, Not sweeping campaigns,
But quiet and faithful perseverance in the simple way
And belief in the hand of the unseen,
So that every convert to this way of life
Is purchased by the example of another.
And though it may seem foolish or naive,
This way of life will one day be the only way
That people can imagine living.
Write it down. It will be.
And the people of the earth will grow rich
So that, eventually, they will stop counting the cost,
But will rejoice, not in what they might obtain,
But in the thing they give away.
