est and
still less of flighty recreation, but a necessary period devoted to
man's thought upon his more tremendous affairs."

After the equipment of the ideal Canadians, Chamilly proceeded to
describe their work. They were to see its pattern above them in the
skies--The Perfect Nation.

Among themselves a few great ideas were to be striven for: "We must be
One People," "Canada must be Perfectly Independent:" "There must be No
Proletariat"

The principle of government was to be "Government by the Best
Intelligence."

"We must try to amend unfair distributions of wealth. Yet not to take
from the rich, but give to the poor. Fortunes should be looked upon as
national, and we should seek means to bring the wealthy to apply their
fortunes to patriotic uses. The surroundings of the poor should be made
beautiful. No labour should be wasted. Men should learn several
occupations, and Government find means of instant communication between
those who would work and those who would employ. The lot of the poor
must not be made hopeless from generation to generation!"

The next demand of the Ideal was, "There must be No Vice."

"The difficulties!" sighed Chrysler.

"We ought to be ashamed to complain till we have done as well as
Sweden."

"Again, we must stamp our action with the Spirit of Organization. The
nation must work all together as a whole. The public plan must be
clearly disseminated, and especially the aim 'To do pre-eminently well
our portion of the improvement of the world.' Consecrated by our ideal
also we must seek to draw together, and foster a national
distinctiveness. Canada must mean to us the Sacred Country, and our
young men learn to weigh truly the value of such living against foreign
advantages. For there is no surety of any excellence equal to a national
atmosphere of it. They have always been artists in Italy; they have
always been sternly free in Scotland: for a word of glory the French
rush into the smoke of battle: the Englishman is a success in courage
and practicality; the German has not given his existence in vain to
thoroughness; nor the American to business. Let us make to ourselves
proper customs and peculiarities, like the good old New Year's call, the
Winter Carnival, the snow-shoe costume, and a secular procession of St.
Jean Baptiste. Tradition too! Why should we forget the virtues of our
fathers; or perhaps still better their faults? Let the man who was a
hero--Daulac; Brock; the twelve