The wealth that is in existence is the great electro-magnet that moves the whole intricate machinery. Cease to employ the national wealth in profitable labour-viz., in work that leaves a surplus after paying its cost of production-and human life would be reduced to simply sustaining itself. It is the desire for luxuries by the few that really causes the necessaries for the many. It is the desire for superfluities that excites men's imagination, and causes them to exercise their skill, invention, and strength, that, without this motive-power, would remain undeveloped.

Implant within all men the desire 'to be better than they are, and no matter how poor they begin the race of life, they will leave it richer and better than they began it. The pleasant country house of the employer and the squalid home of the employed should not be used to make the employee discontented; it should be explained to him that without the skill and thrift that built up the employer's house, things would be worse, not better, for the labouring man. Distribute the wealth of the middle class, make their life as employers impossible, the employed would not be benefited, but be in a worse condition, if you dissipate the fund that has kept the labourers in work. The "motive" that causes wealth and poverty must be studied more, and explained, so as to cause working men to view the capitalist class as their "friends." They see, as it were, the wheels of the machine revolving, but they have never studied the invisible force that drives them, and to the constant action of which every visible motion is due. To elevate the working class, to enable every class to rise upward, needs a desire for a definite object, a 11 motive-power within them urging them to rise as much