nd dog are friends to him, and not a cataract
but carries memories for him, and not a mountain-top but nods old
recognition: his life, all encircled as in blessed mother's-
arms, is it poorer than Slick's with the ass-loads of yellow
metal on his back? Unhappy Slick! Alas, there has so much grown
nomadic, apelike, with us: so much will have, with whatever
pain, repugnance and 'impossibility,' to alter itself, to fix
itself again,--in some wise way, in any not delirious way!

A question arises here: Whether, in some ulterior, perhaps some
not far-distant stage of this 'Chivalry of Labour,' your Master-
Worker may not find it possible, and needful, to grant his
Workers permanent _interest_ in his enterprise and theirs? So
that it become, in practical result, what in essential fact and
justice it ever is, a joint enterprise; all men, from the Chief
Master down to the lowest Overseer and Operative, economically as
well as loyally concerned for it?--Which question I do not
answer. The answer, near or else far, is perhaps, Yes;--and yet
one knows the difficulties. Despotism is essential in most
enterprises; I am told, they do not tolerate 'freedom of debate'
on board a Seventy-four! Republican senate and _plebiscita_
would not answer well in Cotton-Mills. And yet observe there
too: Freedom, not nomad's or ape's Freedom, but man's Freedom;
this is indispensable. We must have it, and will have it! To
reconcile Despotism with Freedom:--well, is that such a mystery?
Do you not already know the way? It is to make your Despotism
_just._ Rigorous as Destiny; but just too, as Destiny and its
Laws. The Laws of God: all men obey these, and have no
'Freedom' at all but in obeying them. The way is already known,
part of the way;--and courage and some qualities are needed for
walking on it!

Chapter VI

The Landed

A man with fifty, with five hundred, with a thousand pounds a
day, given him freely, without condition at all,--on condition,
as it now runs, that he will sit with his hands in his pockets
and do no mischief, pass no Corn-Laws or the like,--he too, you
would say, is or might be a rather strong Worker! He is a Worker
with such tools as no man in this world ever before had. But in
practice, very astonishing, very ominous to look at, he proves
not a strong Worker;--you are too happy if he will prove but a
No-worker, do nothing, and not be a Wrong-worker.

You ask him, at the year's end: "