6 FIELDS, FACTORIES AND WORKSHOPS. 



Labour will be a failure, if it does not take into account 

 the above tendencies towards integration. Those ten- 

 dencies have not yet received, in our opinion, due 

 attention from the different Socialist schools but they 

 must. A reorganised society will have to abandon the 

 fallacy of nations specialised for the production of either 

 agricultural or manufactured produce. It will have to 

 rely on itself for the production of food and many if 

 not most of the raw materials; it must find the best 

 means of combining agriculture with manufacture the 

 work in the field with a decentralised industry and it 

 will have to provide for " integrated education," which 

 education alone, by teaching both science and handi- 

 craft from earliest childhood, can give to society the men 

 and women it really needs. 



Each nation her own agriculturist and manufacturer ; 

 each individual working in the field and in some indus- 

 trial art ; each individual combining scientific knowledge 

 with the knowledge of a handicraft such is, we affirm, 

 the present tendency of civilised nations. 



The prodigious growth of industries in Great Britain, 

 and the simultaneous development of the international 

 traffic which now permits the transport of raw materials 

 and articles of food on a gigantic scale, have created 

 the impression that a few nations of West Europe were 

 destined to become the manufacturers of the world. 

 They need only it was argued to supply the market 

 with manufactured goods, and they will draw from all 

 over the surface of the earth the food they cannot grow 

 themselves, as well as the raw materials they need for 

 their manufactures. The steadily increasing speed of 

 transoceanic communications and the steadily increasing 

 facilities of .shipping have contributed to enforce the 

 above impression. If we take the enthusiastic pictures 

 of international traffic, drawn in such a masterly way 

 by Neumann Spallart the statistician and almost the 

 poet of the world-trade we are inclined indeed to fall 



