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A Dream

A Dream is sown
There should be somewhere on earth a place which no na-
tion could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill
who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the
world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme truth;
a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting in-
stincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes
of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and
ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a
place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for prog-
ress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and
passions, the search for pleasure and material enjoyment. In
this place, children would be able to grow and develop inte-
grally without losing contact with their souls; education would
be given not for passing examinations or obtaining certificates
and posts but to enrich existing faculties and bring forth new
ones. In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by op-
portunities to serve and organise; the bodily needs of each one
would be equally provided for, and intellectual, moral and spiri-
tual superiority would be expressed in the general organisation
not by an increase in the pleasures and powers of life but by
increased duties and responsibilities. Beauty in all its artistic
forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, would be equally
accessible to all; the ability to share in the joy it brings would be
limited only by the capacities of each one and not by social or
financial position. For in this ideal place money would no longer
be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater
importance than that of material wealth and social standing.
There, work would not be a way to earn one's living but a way
to express oneself and to develop one's capacities and possibil-

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