At present, however, I am dealing not with the specific community, but with the generalized civilized community of A.D. 2000 we disregard the fate of states and empires for a time and, for that emergent community, wherever it may be, it seems reasonable to anticipate, replacing and enormously larger and more important than the classes of common workmen and mechanics of to-day, a large fairly homogeneous body big men and little men, indeed, but with no dividing lines of more or less expert mechanics and engineers, with a certain common minimum of education and intelligence, and probably a common-class consciousness a new body, a new force, in the world's history.