[Across the Zodiac by Percy Greg]@TWC D-Link bookAcross the Zodiac CHAPTER V - LANGUAGE, LAWS, AND LIFE 37/47
Read these facts as we may, they ensure employment to the young men when their education is completed--the two last years of severe study adding somewhat to the mortality among them. "A large number find employment in superintending the property of others.
To give them a practical interest in its preservation and improvement, they are generally, after a shorter or longer probation, adopted by their employers as heirs to their estate; our experience of Communism having taught us that immediate and obvious self-interest is the only motive that certainly and seriously affects human action.
The distance at which they are kept, and the absolute seclusion of our family life, enables us easily to secure ourselves against any over-anxiety on their part to anticipate their inheritance.
The minority who do not thus find a regular place in society are employed in factories, as artisans, or on the lands belonging to the State.
To ensure their zeal, the last receive a fixed proportion of the produce, or are permitted to rent land at fixed rates, and at the end of ten years receive a part thereof in full property.
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