368 THE WONDERFUL CENTURY. CHAP. xx. 



Our ruling classes have suggested nothing, and have 

 done nothing, of any real use. They have made fruit- 

 less enquiries into particular phases of the evils that were 

 oppressing the workers, and have continued the applica- 

 tion of those small remedies that always have resulted, 

 and always must result, in no permanent benefit to the 

 whole people. They still believe that " the Past's 

 blood-rusted key " will open the portal of future well- 

 being ! 1 



1 It is never my practice to condemn evils without suggesting 

 remedies. But in this work it would be out of place to go into them 

 in detail. I give, however, a few suggestions and references in an 

 Appendix to this volume. 



