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total average length of life among the well off class was found 

 to be 50 years, as against 32 among the poor." 



Here is the clearest evidence that if burdens and 

 overwork had marked with strong lines many of the 

 faces of the class that Mr. Spencer addressed, and 

 incapacitated and killed others, that overwork and 

 burdens had been doubly injurious and twice as mor- 

 tal among the great masses upon the outside. To 

 these great masses, also, must the " Gospel of Kelax- 

 ation " be preached ; and in the principles of the six 

 hour law is found the only method by which that 

 preaching can be made effective. It is to be reached 

 only by destroying that spirit of destructive competi- 

 tion referred to by Mr. Spencer, in the case of the 

 "great trader" who "deliberately endeavored to 

 crush out everyone whose business competed with his 

 own," up and down, through all classes, to the ut- 

 most limit. 



In that one little effort Herbert Spencer deftly held 

 up to view the consuming greed that is wasting the 

 vitality of our whole people, for which he should ever 

 be held in the most grateful remembrance. 



