IN MEMORIAM. XXV. 



profits of labour to the workman ! When will that be ? Echo 

 answers, when 1 But if we may hazard a guess we shall not 

 be far wrong, I think, in saying that the considerations and 

 discussions continued in " Labour and Gold," if widely spread 

 abroad, will not fail to hasten the day. Mr. BARNES, again, speaking 

 on the effects of the monopoly of great capitals, (p. 70), admits that 

 " one man may leave a million to his wife, earned out of his 

 capital by his workmen, but then fewer men out of every hundred 

 in his trade can leave their children a hundred pounds." Who 

 cannot feel that the loss of the hundred pounds to each of the many 

 is ill compensated for by the gain of a million to one person ? 

 Everywhere throughout this little book the relations of capital 

 and labour are discussed thus earnestly and temperately. If space 

 allowed we might show how fair he is towards capital rightly 

 employed, and how dear to his heart were the interests and well 

 being of the working man, especially in those chapters on " the 

 measure and quantity of labour," on " overwork," on the 

 " reaction of labour," and of " inaction ;" as well as on the 

 " dignity and disdain of work," 011 " machinery," and " con- 

 gregated labour." But what I consider the essential point in this 

 work is the insistence upon a higher law than the law of the laud, 

 and the market price as a factor in the relations of labour and 

 capital '' the law of Christian Kindness." I .have gone thus 

 much into this work of Mr. BARNES', not only because of the great 

 and pressing present importance of the subject, but, principally, 

 here, to show that Mr. BARNES was not merely a poet, not simply a 

 singer of pretty melodious songs, but a true, a large hearted, and a 

 just philanthropist ; and I venture to think that Mr. BARNES' fame 

 will not in the future simply rest upon his Dorset Dialect poems, 

 exquisite as they undoubtedly are. 



It is time, though, that some mention should be made here of 

 Mr. BARNES in connection with the Dorset Natural History and 

 Antiquarian Field Club. As we might have supposed, Mr. BARNES 

 was always forward to support anything connected with the 

 interests of natural history and natural science. Every morning 



