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usually animating those working in association. 

 " I have said it often enough, but I must 

 say it once again," wrote William Morris, 

 "since it is so much a part of my case for 

 handicraft, that so long as a man allows his 

 daily work to be mere unrelieved drudgery, 

 he will seek his happiness in vain. 1 say 

 further, that the worst tyrants of the days of 

 violence were but feeble tormentors compared 

 with those captains of industry who have 

 taken the pleasure of work away from the 

 workmen. Furthermore, I feel absolutely 

 certain that handicraft, joined to other condi- 

 tions, of which more presently, would produce 

 the beauty and pleasure in work above- 

 mentioned : and that, if that be so, and this 

 double pleasure of lovely surroundings and 

 happy work could take the place of the 

 double torment of squalid surroundings and 

 wretched drudgery, have we not good reason 

 for wishing, if it might be, that handicraft 

 should once more step into the place of 

 machine-production ? " 



The force of the French saying, Toujour a 

 perdrix, is as keenly felt by the English 

 workman as by the French ouvrie7\ if 

 indeed either the French or the English 



