It is a strain on our imaginations to conceive the social arrangements of our immediate ancestors.

We find them grotesque.

The solution of the problem of physical maintenance so as to banish care and crime, so far from seeming to us an ultimate attainment, appears but as a preliminary to anything like real human progress.

We have but relieved ourselves of an impertinent and needless harassment which hindered our ancestor from undertaking the real ends of existence.

We are merely stripped for the race; no more.