Human Physiology. 



great objects to be gained, corresponding efforts and sacrifices 

 must be made. 



A large portion of our population is now educated for use- 

 lessness. Nearly all the women of the middle and uppei 

 ranks of life are without employment. Few of them are able 

 to prepare food, make clothing, or attend to the ordinary duties 

 of a household. They know little of science, and their art is 

 limited to a superficial knowledge of a few accomplishments. 

 The utter helplessness of great numbers of women of the upper 

 and middle classes, if by any calamity left unprotected, is 

 really appalling. They can do nothing useful; many would 

 scorn to work if they knew how. Their only resources seem 

 to be, to become governesses, for which few are well qualified, 

 and companions dependants upon, and parasites of, those 

 who are able to maintain them. 



Young men are educated for the church, law, medicine, army, 

 navy, civil service, engineers, architects, and commerce; a 

 great number have no occupation, follow no profession, and 

 render no service to the society on whose productive industry 

 they, and those who serve them, are a heavy burthen. 



In the future there will be no place for the drones, and the- 

 functions of many others will become extinct. When nations 

 have advanced a few steps farther in wisdom and equity, they 

 will learn war no more, the sword will be turned into a plough- 

 share, and the only armies will be the armies of industry, which 

 will subdue the earth, and not diminish, but increase its popu- 

 lation. They will open up the jungles of the tropics, drain the 

 marshes, irrigate the deserts, and war against famine and pesti- 

 lence, instead of creating them. In these armies and naval 

 expeditions there will be opportunities for the exercise of the 

 highest talent and heroism. There will not be a solitary 

 Livingstone lost in African deserts, but expeditions equipped 

 with the resources of empires to carry the light of a beneficent 

 civilisation into the darkest regions of the world. 



