he One Institution_
The 'Organisation of Labour,' if well understood, the Problem of
the whole Future. Governments of various degrees of utility.
Kilkenny Cats; spinning-Dervishes; Parliamentary eloquence. A
prime-Minister who would dare believe the heavenly omens. Who
can despair of Governments, that passes a Soldier's Guardhouse?--
Incalculable what, by arranging, commanding and regimenting, can
be made of men. Organisms enough in the dim huge Future; and
'United Services' quite other than the red-coat one. Legislative
interference between Workers and master-Workers increasingly
indispensable. Sanitary Reform: People's Parks: A right
Education Bill, and effective Teaching Service. Free bridge for
emigrants: England's sure markets among her colonies. London
the _All-Saxon-Home,_ rendezvous of all the 'Children of the
Harz-Rock.' The English essentially conservative: Always the
invincible instinct to hold fast by the Old, to admit the
_minimum_ of New. Yet new epochs do actually come; and
with them new peremptory necessities. A certain Editor's
stipulated work.
Chap. IV. _Captains of Industry_
Government can do much, but it can in nowise do all. Fall of
Mammon: to be a noble Master among noble Workers, will again be
the first ambition with some few. The Leaders of Industry,
virtually the Captains of the world: doggeries and Chivalries.
Isolation, the sum-total of wretchedness to man. All social
growths in the world have required organising; and work, the
grandest of human interests, does now require it.
Chap. V. _Permanence_
The 'tendency to persevere,' to persist in spite of hindrances,
discouragements and 'impossibilities,' that which distinguishes
the Species Man from the Genus Ape. Month-long contracts, and
Exeter-Hall purblindness. A practical manufacturing Quaker's care
for his workmen. Blessing of permanent Contract: Permanence in
all things, at the earliest possible moment, and to the latest
possible. Vagrant Sam-Slicks. The wealth of a man the number of
things he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
The Worker's _interest_ in the enterprise with which he is
connected. How to reconcile Despotism with Freedom.
Chap. VI. _The Landed_
A man with fifty, with five hundred, with a thousand pounds a
day, given him freely, without condition at all, might be a
rather strong Worker: The sad reality, very ominous to look at.
Will he awaken, be aliv
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