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slave, but work which would be agreeable to the phy- 

 sical forces of every healthy man and woman in the 

 country. 



It has been proved that by following the methods 

 of intensive market-gardening partly under glass 

 vegetables and fruit can be grown in such quantities 

 that men could be provided with a rich vegetable food 

 and a profusion of fruit, if they simply devoted to the 

 task of growing them the hours which every one will- 

 ingly devotes to work in the open air, after having spent 

 most of his day in the factory, the mine, or the study. 

 Provided, of course, that the production of food-stuffs 

 should not be the work of the isolated individual, but 

 the planned out and combined action of human groups. 



It has also been proved and those who care to 

 verify it by themselves may easily do so by calculating 

 the real expenditure for labour which was lately made 

 in the building of workmen's houses by both private 

 persons and municipalities * that under a proper com- 

 bination of labour, twenty to twenty-four months of one 

 man's work would be sufficient to secure for ever, for 

 a family of five, an apartment or a house provided with 

 all the comforts which modern hygiene and taste could 

 require. 



And it has been demonstrated by actual experiment 

 that, by adopting methods of education, advocated long 

 since and partially applied here and there, it is most 

 easy to convey to children of an average intelligence, 

 before they have reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, 

 a broad general comprehension of Nature, as well as of 

 human societies ; to familiarise their minds with sound 

 methods of both scientific research and technical work ; 

 and inspire their hearts with a deep feeling of human 

 solidarity and justice. And that it is extremely easy 



* These figures may be computed, for instance, from the data con- 

 tained in " The Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labour of 

 the United States, for the year 1893: Building and Loan Associations". 



