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And the farmers captains under this commander might in 

 the same way assemble the families whose labour was to make 

 the soil fruitful, and make with them the same amicable and 

 just compact. " Work faithfully under my direction," one might 

 say, " and you shall have your rightful share of the avails of 

 your industry, and of our joint success. If Providence blesses 

 us with good harvests, we will share together our prosperity. 

 If there come bad seasons and harvests, we will bear our mis- 

 fortunes together. You shall have comfortable and healthy 

 dwellings, gardens for vegetables, fruit, and flowers, where you 

 can keep bees, and yards for poultry. From the stores of the 

 farm you can draw provisions and clothing as you have need, 

 and within proper limits, at cost price. There are good schools 

 for your children, which they must regularly attend, a church to 

 go to on Sundays, a doctor to see you if you are ill. A large 

 room has been provided where you can read, or amuse your- 

 selves in bad weather, so that you will have no need to go to 

 the alehouse. If any man gets drunk, his pay will be stopped. 

 At the third offence, he will be paid off, and must leave. We 

 must have sober, industrious men ; good order and good morals. 

 Remember, every man is now my partner, and he must consult 

 my interest and reputation and his own. If any one does not, 

 of course the partnership will be dissolved." 



I do not know how English agricultural labourers would 

 respond to such a speech nor in what spirit they would enter 

 upon such an engagement; but I have faith enough in human 

 nature to be sure that generosity will be rewarded with fidelity. 

 And every owner of mine, or mill, or manufactory in Great 

 Britain might call his " hands" together around their " head," 

 and make with them a similar arrangement, guarded as pru- 

 dently as circumstances might require, but planned and carried 

 out in the spirit of justice and magnanimity which should govern 

 all human relations. This would be genuine co-operation, 

 -which could soon be carried out into all the details of life, so 



