"Were half the power that fills the world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals nor forts."
-LONGFELLOW.

We want the people to understand better the "causes of material progress." A single instance should explain my meaning: Titus Salt discovers how to utilize a material, and by his skill enhances the value of that material, develops an immense trade, employs a large army of industrial workers, and Saltaire is the result of his skill and energy. Is this due to the "working class"? Would they, as a body, ever have developed this trade? No-most emphatically, no! The result is due to Titus Salt and the skilled men under him. And the operatives, instead of envying the riches made by such men, instead of intimating that as they "produce all the wealth," they deserve a larger share, ought to feel that they are under great obligations to men like Salt for opening out for them fields of employment. We have made progress because "new scientific truth has, through invention, taught us how to obtain greater effects with less expenditure of space, of time, of materials and forces." Without the aid of scientific truth, had we depended on the " labour " we hear so much of in certain quarters, our progress would have been impossible.

"In the sugar manufactures, for example, by means of the centrifugal machine, the sugar is deprived as perfectly of molasses in three minutes as it was previously in three days, and the necessary manufacturing apparatus has been so much reduced; in - magnitude as not to require more than one-half the space. The process of bleaching linen, which