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A TALE OF THE FUTURE.
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experience that the people who depend on them get too lazy to learn. Again, people that are lazy get selfish, and a selfish-minded man or woman is an abomination. Selfishness is a sin we use all our power and will to stamp out from our midst, as a sin not worthy of our manhood, a sin that would degrade us, were it allowed, below the level of humanity, whose greatest function is, and must ever be, to live for the good of others and not for self's selfish ends, at least, if we wish to be happy."