in getting the right machinery, who ascertains the articles to make that will yield the best profit, who finds the best market for the goods he makes, who obtains regular work for the workers, and who has the enterprise, energy, industry, and thrift essential to the direction of labour, and the thrift to accumulate capital, so as to be able to add to mills or machinery, or buy the newer and better machines as they are invented. Much is due to the capitalist and the inventor, but these two agencies would be useless without that large class who have the power for the direction or organization of labour; these men are as valuable for the fighting of a nation's industrial battles as a Napoleon, Wellington, or Nelson to organize and skilfully direct the masses of men entrusted to them to fight her political rivals. These men are rare; hence it is, and justly so, that the increased riches due to machinery have gone to the few and not to the many.

The great difference between men and animals is, that the former are said to begin where their fathers left off; they are progressive; the greater experience of the father is transmitted to the son; whereas with animals, there is no progressive development; each begins where its parents began. The working class may be compared to the animals; the majority of the labouring class begin where their fathers began; the - exceptional few," who begin where their fathers ended, are the directors of labour. "Manual skill, no matter how great, is developed and dies with each generation that possesses it; it is not transmitted from father to son; it is not progressive. What is progressive is, not the faculties of the labourer, but the knowledge of the men by