But if these things go on, we shall see, or our sons shall see, what it is to have offended an inspector.
This for the unfortunate.

But with the fortunate also, even those whom the inspector loves, it may not be altogether well.

It is concluded that in such a state of society, supposing it to be financially sound, the level of comfort will be high.

It does not follow: there are strange depths of idleness in man, a too-easily-got sufficiency, as in the case of the sago-eaters, often quenching the desire for all besides; and it is possible that the men of the richest ant-heaps may sink even into squalor.

But suppose they do not; suppose our tricksy instrument of human nature, when we play upon it this new tune, should respond kindly; suppose no one to be damped and none exasperated by the new conditions, the whole enterprise to be financially sound--a vaulting supposition--and all the inhabitants to dwell together in a golden mean of comfort: we have yet to ask ourselves if this be what man desire, or if it be what man will even deign to accept for a continuance.