Excerpt from The World an Educational Unit With Centralized Education as the Controlling Force: A Plea From the Poor for the Same Educational Home Environments as the Rich Enjoy, and a Plea From the Rich for Better Thought
The world wastes too much - more than half its power, more than half its riches, more than half the lives of its men.
The power created and lost without use far exceeds that actually put to useful purpose. The energy produced - always at great cost - and frittered away without productive employment would lighten the labor and double the blessed results of all effort. The money wasted by half the world would keep the other half from want. The food destroyed by millionaires would sustain the millions. The opportunities missed by the fortunate would, if utilized, banish misfortune from the earth.
There is in the world more of power, of money, and of food than the race requires. The stream of resource coming to man is unfathomable. If wisely conserved and thoughtfully directed, this stream would lose no feast that body could consume or brain demand, not a penny of cash that wealth could use, and not an atom of power that possession demands or posterity could employ. The millions who lack would want no more; the work undone would be accomplished; the promise of creation would be fulfilled.
More than half the power locked in coal passes up the chimney in useless smoke. More than half the energy consigned to man is lost in experimental and undirected effort. More than half the race, born to a heritage of hope, dies in despair.
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