It is a pleasure which we are afraid of losing, not a pain." "Yes," said I, "I have noticed that, and I was going to ask you about that also.

But in the meantime, what do you positively mean to assert about the pleasurableness of work amongst you ?" "This, that _all_ work is now pleasurable; either because of the hope of gain in honour and wealth with which the work is done, which causes pleasurable excitement, even when the actual work is not pleasant; or else because it has grown into a pleasurable _habit_, as in the case with what you may call mechanical work; and lastly (and most of our work is of this kind) because there is conscious sensuous pleasure in the work itself; it is done, that is, by artists." "I see," said I.

"Can you now tell me how you have come to this happy condition?
For, to speak plainly, this change from the conditions of the older world seems to me far greater and more important than all the other changes you have told me about as to crime, politics, property, marriage." "You are right there," said he.

"Indeed, you may say rather that it is this change which makes all the others possible.

What is the object of Revolution?
Surely to make people happy.