“[I]f we could have devised an arrangement for providing everybody with music in their homes, perfect in quality, unlimited in quantity, suited to every mood, and beginning and ceasing at will, we should have considered the limit of human felicity already attained, and ceased to strive for further improvements.” ShouldHumansHomePerfectQualityLimitsShould HaveStriveImprovementMoodQuantityProvidingArrangementsUnlimitedFelicity Book:Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature Source: Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature
“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization” PeopleShouldIdeasSelfSchoolSocialInterestCommunitySupportEconomyCitizensCivilizationLowsSeekingFavorsSellingTendenciesBuyingGradesMutualExpensesRise AboveBenevolenceInconsistentSocial SystemsAnti SocialInterchangeBuying And Selling Book:Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887 Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887
