CHAPTER XIII 



CO-OPERATION IN OPERATION 



Toil Without Reward " Back to the Land " How to Get 

 Land Co-operation Man's Natural Job Organization 

 In Europe In America Fellowship Farm The Ar- 

 den Colony Farming a Business Changes Imminent. 



HARD, anxious work, with little to show for 

 it in the end, is the portion of the average 

 man. Life is something that was thrust upon him 

 unasked and must be maintained at any cost. It 

 seldom occurs to him that there is anything 

 either beautiful or wonderful in it. He begins 

 to drudge in youth and for years the daily round 

 of rising unrefreshed from sleep under condi- 

 tions that make rest impossible, to spend hours 

 in a workshop or factory and then return to his 

 cramped, airless quarters, goes on without hope 

 of change. How incomprehensible to him the 

 joyous cry of Browning " Oh, the wild joys of 

 living I " A man who said this to his fellow work- 



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