ecome this way. Ithink it is very entertaining and makes for good storytelling. “At first, proceeding fromthe problems of our own age, it seemed clear as daylight to me that the gradual wideningof the present merely temporary and social difference between the Capitalist and theLabourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough toyou - and wildly incredible! - and yet even now there are existing circumstances to pointthat way. There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamentalpurposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, thereare new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms andrestaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I thought, this tendency hadincreased till industry had gradually lost it’s birthright in the sky. I mean that it had gonedeeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories, spending astill-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end--!....Again, the exclusive tendency of the richer people -- due no doubt, to theincreasing refinement of their education, and the widening gulf between them and therude violence of the poor - is already leading to the closing, in their interest, ofconsiderable portions of the surface of the land.... And this same widening gulf- which isdue to the length and expense of the higher educational process and the increasedfacilities for and temptations towards refined habits on the part of the rich - will makethat exchange between class and class, that promotion by intermarriage which at presentretards the splitting of our species along lines of social stratification, less and lessfrequent. So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure andcomfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continuallyadapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they wou...
