CHAPTER III
ECONOMY OF FORCE
Surely the secret of Moral Agriculture is to hitch one’s Plough to the Great Pulsator and make manure of the devil.
There is no cure for the world’s evils except linking them together in suitably assorted pairs, in such-wise that they neutralise the evilness of each other.
There can be no adequate supply of heat-force till we convert into heat the great devastating meteorological forces.
There will be no stop to the supply of criminal classes till the brutal and rowdy type of hooligan is trained as magnetic healer to the over-sensitive, over-intellectual, over-conscientious, over-refined type of man and woman.
There will be no stopping the spread of insanity till different types of abnormal neurosis act as magnetic healers to each other.
There can be no sound scheme of education till we know how to assort children in pairs and link them so that they give each other a strong impetus towards some desirable end.
There is no real solution of the sanitation problem or the food-supply problem till we devise good systems of sewage-farming and of earth-to-earth burial. I am glad to take this opportunity of stating my conviction that cremation and burying under stone are polar mistakes. Cremation may be necessary in cases of zymotic disease until we have devised something better. But I feel convinced that the scientific solution is that every carcase of man and beast shall be buried underground and a fruit-tree planted over it. The superstition against eating fruit grown on the dead bodies of one’s friends is a good specimen of the wasteful and distracting kind of idolatry which keeps the world in bondage. What are fruit-trees for, if not to forge and transform cannibalistic selfishness into sacramental joy? While we eat meat, we are obliged to cut the lives of creatures short, because those which die a natural death are unsuitable for food. But fruit lives on that which has died at its own time.