CONCLUSION. JI7 



becoming- producers ; and under an educational system 

 of which the motive is " profits," and the means 

 " specialisation," we simply work to death the women 

 teachers who take their educational duties in earnest. 

 What floods of useless sufferings deluge every so-called 

 civilised land in the world ! 



When we look back on ages past, and see there the 

 same sufferings, we may say that perhaps then they 

 were unavoidable on account of the ignorance which pre- 

 vailed. But human genius, stimulated by our modern 

 Renaissance, has already indicated new paths to follow. 



For thousands of years in succession to grow one's 

 food was the burden, almost the curse, of mankind. 

 But it need be so no more. If you make yourselves 

 the soil, and partly the temperature and the moisture 

 which each crop requires, you will see that to grow 

 the yearly food of a family, under rational conditions 

 of culture, requires so little labour that it might al- 

 most be done as a mere change from other pursuits. 

 If you return to the soil, and co-operate with your 

 neighbours instead of erecting high walls to conceal 

 yourself from their looks ; if you utilise what experi- 

 ment has already taught us, and call to your aid science 

 and technical invention which never fail to answer to 

 the call look only at what they have done for warfare 

 you will be astonished at the facility with which 

 you can bring a rich and varied food out of the soil. 

 You will admire the amount of sound knowledge which 

 your children will acquire by your side, the rapid growth 

 of their intelligence, and the facility with which they 

 will grasp the laws of Nature, animate and inanimate. 



Have the factory and the workshop at the gates of 

 your fields and gardens, and work in them. Not those 

 large establishments, of course, in which huge masses 

 of metals have to be dealt with and which are better 

 placed at certain spots indicated by Nature, but the 

 countless variety of workshops and factories which are 



