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"Excuse me," I said, not at all liking this sort of pursuit, and feeling it fair to turn even upon a guest who kept it up. "Isn't it so with you in Altruria?" "It was so once," he admitted, "but not now. In fact, it is like a waking dream to find one's self in the presence of conditions here that we outlived so long ago."
He was not in the least offended at my boldness, as I had feared he might be, but he said, with that jolly laugh of his: "Capital! Well, perhaps I have worked my candor a little too hard; I suppose there is such a thing. But don't you see that it leaves me in the best possible position to carry the war into Altruria when we get him to open up about his native land?" "Ah!
Counting the cost and finding that all the earnings go to mere living, they decide to get that living in company with nature under free skies their own employers. Such may live in Altruria with the happy zest of the authors of that charming sketch. It is not given to many of earth's children to be so well mated and so heavenly-wise.
There is still a chance that a man will be tall or short in Altruria, that he will be strong or weak, well or ill, gay or grave, happy or unhappy in love, but none that he will be rich or poor, busy or idle, live splendidly or meanly.
The good old lady had an insatiable curiosity about Altruria, and, though I do not think she ever quite believed in our reality, she at least always treated me kindly, as if I were the victim of an illusion that was thoroughly benign. I think she had some notion that your letters, which I used often to take with me and read to Mrs.
For weeks after we came to Altruria I was so unhistorically blest that if I had been disposed to give you a full account of myself I should have had no events to hang the narrative on. But now we have had some occurrences recently, quite in the American sense, and these have furnished me with an incentive as well as opportunity to send you a letter.
"But you are proof of as great a miracle, Robert." "Beg your pardon, ma'am?" "Some day I will explain. But is there nothing that can make you believe Altruria is true here, and that it can be true anywhere?" "I have been thinking a good deal about that, ma'am.
"You have seen the meaning and purport of Altruria so clearly," I said, "that I think I can safely leave you to guess the answer to that question." She laughed, and did not try to detain me now when I offered my hand for good-night. I fancied her mother took leave of me coldly, and with a certain effect of inculpation.
Every one does his share of labor, and receives his share of food, clothing, and shelter, which is neither more nor less than another's. If you can imagine the justice and impartiality of a well-ordered family, you can conceive of the social and economic life of Altruria. We are, properly speaking, a family rather than a nation like yours.
"Well, not in person or property. But he may hurt them in taste and sentiment as much as he likes. Can't a man do what he pleases with his own in Altruria?" "No, he can only do right with his own." "And if he tries to do wrong, or what the community thinks is wrong?" "Then the community takes his own from him."
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