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indeed they do not find the means of keeping the fac- 

 tory running by relieving each other in groups. 



The scattering of industries over the country so as 

 to bring the factory amidst the fields, to make agri- 

 culture derive all those profits which it always finds 

 in being combined with industry (see the Eastern States 

 of America) and to produce a combination of industrial 

 with agricultural work is surely the next step to be 

 made, as soon as a reorganisation of our present condi- 

 tions is possible. It is being made already, as we saw 

 on the preceding pages. That step is imposed by the 

 very necessity of producing for the producers them- 

 selves ; it is imposed by the necessity for each healthy 

 man and woman to spend a part of their lives in manual 

 work in the free air ; and it will be rendered the more 

 necessary when the great social movements, which have 

 now become unavoidable, come to disturb the present 

 international trade, and compel each nation to revert 

 to her own resources for her own maintenance. Hu- 

 manity as a whole, as well as each separate individual, 

 will be gainers by the change, and the change will take 

 place. 



However, such a change also implies a thorough 

 modification of our present system of education. It 

 implies a society composed of men and women, each 

 of whom is able to work with his or her hands as 

 well as with his or her brain^ and to do so in more 

 directions than one. This " integration of capacities " 

 I am now going to analyse. 



