There
should be somewhere upon earth a place that no nation could claim as
its sole property, a place where all human beings of goodwill, sincere
in their aspiration, could live freely as citizens of the world, obeying
one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace,
concord, harmony, where all the fighting instincts of man would be used
exclusively to conquer the causes of his suffering and misery, to
surmount his weakness and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and
incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the care for
progress would get precedence over the satisfaction of desires and
passions, the seeking for pleasures and material enjoyments.

In this place, children would be
able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their
soul. Education would be given, not with a view to passing examinations
and getting certificates and posts, but for enriching the existing
faculties and bringing forth new ones. In this place titles and
positions would be supplanted by opportunities to serve and organize.
The needs of the body will be provided for equally in the case of each
and everyone. In the general organisation intellectual, moral and
spiritual superiority will find expression not in the enhancement of the
pleasures and powers of life but in the increase of duties and
responsibilities.

Artistic beauty in all forms,
painting, sculpture, music, literature, will be available equally to
all, the opportunity to share in the joys they bring being limited
solely by each one's capacities and not by social or financial position.

For in this ideal place money
would be no more the sovereign lord. Individual merit will have a
greater importance than the value due to material wealth and social
position. Work would not be there as the means of gaining one's
livelihood, it would be the means whereby to express oneself, develop
one's capacities and possibilities, while doing at the same time service
to the whole group, which on its side would provide for each one's
subsistence and for the field of his work.

In brief, it would be a place
where the relations among human beings, usually based almost exclusively
upon competition and strife, would be replaced by relations of
emulation for doing better, for collaboration, relations of real
brotherhood.