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tion, saving for surplus wealth the proceeds of its manufacturing 

 industry. Industrial armies could drain every bog, bring every 

 waste under culture; and all England, under wise and heroic 

 leadership, might be made one great garden of fertility and 

 beauty, and the happy home of an orderly, intelligent, pros- 

 perous, and beautiful society. 



CHAPTER III. 



LEADERSHIP. 



The Principles of Social Order Every Body must have its Head Illus- 

 trations in Music and Architecture The Uses of an Aristocracy 

 Captains of Industry The Work for Noblemen, Landed Proprietors, 

 and Capitalists. 



IN every society, and every social movement, there must be 

 order and subordination. It is the law of all organisation. 

 Everywhere there must be some central, presiding, directing, 

 and controlling power. In every plant and animal there is a 

 central life; the brain governs the body; and the will centre 

 governs the brain. When this central authority is free and 

 energetic, and all nerves and muscles obey the will, we have 

 orderly and harmonious movement, full of power and beauty. 

 When there is disease and discord, we have erratic movement 

 and distortion, epilepsy, chorea, palsy ; just as we have agita- 

 tion, tumults, revolutions, and social demoralisation and decay 

 in the body politic. 



Every society, even among animals, must have its head or 

 leader. One instinctively commands, the rest as instinctively 

 obey. Children in their plays come into the same order. 

 There is a foreman to every gang of workers ; a stroke-oar in 



