It is well worth sleeping a hundred years to learn what the right answer was, if, indeed, you have found it yet." "As no such thing as the labor question is known nowadays," replied Dr.
Leete, "and there is no way in which it could arise, I suppose we may claim to have solved it.

Society would indeed have fully deserved being devoured if it had failed to answer a riddle so entirely simple.

In fact, to speak by the book, it was not necessary for society to solve the riddle at all.

It may be said to have solved itself.

The solution came as the result of a process of industrial evolution which could not have terminated otherwise.