progress, civilization, luxury-aye, even comfort,-we want physical labour, with a good: deal added to it. Our present condition is due to far other causes than mere physical labour. Thought, skill to invent and direct, thrift, have been overlooked by those flatterers, misleaders, of the working class who have represented labour as the essential and principal requisite. Cupidity, skill, ambition, have been trusted to by the Divine Architect; and if wise, we should see that our existing social arrangements are the results of the inherent inequalities of human nature, and that it is a great error to act as if the inequalities of life were produced by our existing social arrangements. The working class, as a body are, a homogeneous body of equals, and as such will never produce more than suffices for their own livelihood. Their advisers have accepted this as inevitable, and all their efforts have been directed to limit the production of each to the minimum. They have not given them a motive to develop their powers, but have advised them as if their surplus powers, with which they might do so much, were practically non-existent. Their efforts have been aimed at equality-but the pulling down of the higher and best men to the level of the lower, instead of raising up the lower to the level of the higher.

"Progress is only possible through inequality." "The many can only rise through the ambition and talent of the few." "Ambition is as necessary to the growth of genius as sunlight to the growth of corn." "Without exceptional reward, exceptional talent is impossible." Unless it were possible for the few to succeed and make