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Makely had the Altrurian get into the back seat with her, and, after some attempts to make talk with the driver, I leaned over and joined in their talk. The Altrurian was greatly interested, not so much in the landscape though he owned its beauty when we cried out over it from point to point but in the human incidents and features.
It's very vulgar and the greatest bore." "Then you don't find individuality so desirable, after all," said the Altrurian. "I perfectly detest it!" cried the lady, and evidently she had not the least notion where she was in the argument. "For my part, I'm never happy except when I've forgotten myself and the whole individual bother."
"Didn't it occur to you that if none of his fellow-servants were willing to help him black boots, and if he did it only because he was obliged to, it was hardly the sort of work for you?" "Why, no," said the Altrurian, with absolute simplicity.
The minister said: "I believe that in Altruria no man works for the profit of another?" "No; each works for the profit of all," replied the Altrurian. "Well," said the banker, "you seem to have made it go. Nobody can deny that. But we couldn't make it go here." "Why? I am very curious to know why our system seems so impossible to you." "Well, it is contrary to the American spirit.
The Altrurian waited for the tumult to die away, and then he said, gently: "I don't understand." The old farmer jerked himself to his feet again. "It's like this: I paid my dolla' to hear about a country where there wa'n't no co'perations nor no monop'lies nor no buyin' up cou'ts; and I ain't agoin' to have no allegory shoved down my throat, instead of a true history, noways.
But he had got it into his head that the land here by the lake would sell for building lots if it was cleared, and he could make money on that as well as on the trees; and so they had to go. Of course, one might say that he was deficient in public spirit, but I don't blame him, altogether." "No," the Altrurian assented, somewhat to my surprise, I confess.
"The poor man looked quite worn out," said the Altrurian, "and I am glad I gave him something. He seemed to have several hundred pieces of baggage to look after, and he wasn't embarrassed like your porter by my helping him put my trunks into the car.
I confess that with all my curiosity to meet an Altrurian, I was in no hospitable mood toward the traveler when he finally presented himself, pursuant to the letter of advice sent me by the friend who introduced him. It would be easy enough to take care of him in the hotel; I had merely to engage a room for him, and have the clerk tell him his money was not good if he tried to pay for anything.
You can't stop a woman of that kind when she gets started; I had better left it alone. "But," said the Altrurian, "if you are forbidden by motives of humanity from doing any sort of manual labor, which you must leave to those who live by it, I suppose you take some sort of exercise?" "Well," said Mrs. Makely, shaking her head gayly, "we prefer to take medicine."
It was their home; they were born and lived and died here. There is the family burying-ground over there." Neither Mrs. Makely nor myself was ready with a reply, and we left the word with the Altrurian, who suggested: "Still, I suppose they will be more prosperous in the West on the new land they take up?" The young fellow leaned his arms on the wheel by which he stood.
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