been said about "outcast London," that unless we are very careful, the indignation that has been roused at the state of things existing will cause a sympathetic pity to suggest a variety of remedies that would in reality both aggravate the evils they are designed to cure, and cause other evils, in addition, of far greater magnitude.

To stimulate, to give freedom and scope for the development of mankind, is to belong to the party that represents the progressive instincts of humanity. It is the party that looks forward and not behind, the party that desires the attainment of what ought to be in this world, the party that has no reverence for obstruction, no belief in the Communistic idea of equality, but trusts to the "inequalities " of life to act as an incentive to urge men onward and upward. The aim of all true social progress is to raise the condition of the poorest, and not to reduce the better off to the level of the poor; not to diminish nature's inequality, but to secure to every labourer the best reward for his labour, and train him to make the best use of what he gets. Radicals look upon inequality as a upastree to be destroyed, whereas it is only the elm-tree on which the vine of life is to be trained. It may be wise to prune the elm-tree to keep it flourishing; it is unwise to hack at it as if we would eradicate it. "Property is theft;" "Physical labour is the source of all wealth and all culture." Wealth and culture the product of physical labour? What a fallacy! You cannot have wealth without labour, true; but in constructing the science of society-of the art of living, in our day, on a true basis,-one of the first things to be done is to arrive at the true relations