When a man has an abundance of everything which neither he nor his neighbors can use, he becomes tremendously concerned about conserving the forms, until the Life in them can benefit through the transmuting the forms from lower to higher states. This leads the people to construct in the cities huge warehouses for surplus food and other manufactured products, and vast cold-storage facilities for perishable goods. Since the favorable climate and the industry of the inhabitants produces a surplus nearly every season, these storage plants and warehouses are generally filled to overflowing, and though the contents are free to everyone that needs, they keep on increasing.

It would at first appear that such strange principles of conduct would create a dilemma from which there is no escape. The desire to preserve forms in the service of Life makes storage necessary, and an equal determination to transmute everything into higher forms for Life’s use makes consumption necessary; and with either overproduction or underconsumption it would seem inevitable that much of these riches would fall a prey to one or the other, thus defeating both the purpose of preservation and of transmutation.

But these people in pursuing their aims, consider leisure just as much a sacred duty as toil, and when production increases the surplus above a certain amount they feel themselves obligated to worship at the shrine of leisure and to devote less energy to hurry and effort. And we find them, in the midst of increasing wealth, not only practicing the Christmas spirit every day, but enjoying five or six Sabbaths every week. Which of course is possible, where no one need work for a living and every requirement is met from a continual surplus, available to