No one objects to a beautiful elm-tree in his field because in hundreds of fields there are similar elm-trees.
Slight variations in finish, color, etc., can give individuality to the simplest chair.
Therefore the first outlay for the new order will be beyond the purse of any single family of this group.

If we had learned to cooperate sanely, a group might undertake it, but the most probable method will be for some far-sighted men to agree to sink a certain amount of money in experiment, just as they now sink money in prospecting a mine with all the uncertainty it brings.

Ability to _risk_ in an experiment must go hand in hand with capital to use.
The objection commonly made is that all individuality will be taken away, that each one must live like every one else in the neighborhood.

This is not an essential consequence, but will it be so impossible to have a certain similarity in the dwellings of like-minded people?
In "Anticipations" it is declared that "Unless some great catastrophe in Nature breaks down all that man has built, these great kindred groups of capable men and educated adequate women must be under the forces we have considered so far, the element finally emergent amid the vast confusions of the coming time."[1] [Footnote 1: Anticipations, pp.

153-4.] The practical people, the engineering and medical and scientific people, will become more and more _homogeneous_ in their fundamental culture.
The decreasing of the space one can call one's own within urban limits has so steadily increased, and the need for freer air has become so fully recognized, that the case of the single householder in the suburbs and even in the country is bound to press harder and harder.