used to exist. But how could such things be tolerated nowadays? Here, the principle is firmly established: all the necessary, harmless, and pleasurable materials of life should be collected in sufficient quantity with as little time spent as possible, so that people may devote the remaining time to pursuits of their own choosing, to works that they desire. In earlier times, vast tracts of land in the Darbhanga and Muzaffarpur districts were given over to the cultivation of tobacco, but now there is no trace of tobacco there. The factories of cigars, cigarettes, and bidis are nowhere to be found. Not only alcohol and opium, but also hemp, bhang, charas, toddy, and many such substances can now only be read about or seen in museums of objects. Tea, coffee, and kahwa too have been dismissed as useless addictions.

Since there is no distinction between high and low in food, inferior grains such as sawan, kodon, mandua (ragi), coarse rice, and so on are no longer cultivated. The fruits and grains that are produced for consumption are all of the finest quality. The same holds true for clothing, dwellings, conveyances, and hospitality.

With the disappearance of money and the abolition of private property, fruits and flowers, fields and orchards, factories and workshops—all are now national property; and for this reason, there is no longer the proliferation of laws as before. The laws of income tax, land settlement, court fees, excise, tenancy, rent, joint-stock companies, and hundreds of others are now obsolete. The very root of civil litigation has vanished, for no individual owns wealth or land. The scope of criminal law has also greatly diminished, since crimes such as theft and robbery for the sake of property are no longer possible. The motive for one person to cause physical or mental harm to another remains only in name, for the root of all these was individual ownership. The excellent organization of education, the advanced treatment of diseases, the birth of healthy and robust children to healthy parents—these are the factors, the very corners from which, in earlier times, so many crimes used to arise, but today, crime is either absent or nearly so.

Now, there are only two main causes of crime: the occasional turbulence of human nature and ignorance, and the relations between men and women. But even these, compared to earlier times, are not a hundredth as—

Reconciliations are not possible; the reason is—a profound transformation has taken place in human nature, and men and women are now regarded as absolutely equal. Today, a man has no more rights over a woman than a woman has over a man. Both are bound only by the ties of love. Just as the marital bond is held together solely by love, so too is it considered stable only as long as that love endures. In the absence of love, this bond is entirely dissolved. When neither husband nor wife is economically dependent on the other, when there is no fear of