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each farm of an estate might become a co-operative association ; 

 but it is evident that greater economies of expenditure and 

 production and a higher order of social organisation could be 

 secured, were a whole estate or parish formed into one associa- 

 tion and the more self-sustaining and self-supplying the better. 

 What we need is variety of occupation, suited to every variety 

 of tastes and capacities. For that we ought to have in every 

 large association, agriculture, horticulture, the breeding of ani- 

 mals, landscape and flower gardening, the care of fowls and 

 bees, dairy work, several branches of manufacture, and some- 

 thing of the ornamental and artistic, as ceramic work or 

 sculpture, where the materials could be found, and work in 

 wood and metals; on lakes and rivers, fish culture; fisheries 

 all around the coasts; and everywhere the planting of groves 

 and orchards, the beautifying of nature, and that high culture 

 of the earth which will enable every square yard to use its air 

 and sunshine to the best advantage. We think England 

 beautiful it is; but genius, taste, enthusiasm, embodied in 

 social organisations, would in a few years transform it into a 

 glowing paradise. 



And it is to be observed that every change is to be made in 

 conformity to some human requirement to supply a demand 

 in the very nature of man. We want honesty in our dealings ; 

 comfort and security; friendliness and good-fellowship; mutual 

 help; congenial society; combined effort for the general 

 good; increased production of wealth, not for individual greed, 

 but for the happiness of all; the free play of the higher senti- 

 ments; religion made practical; religion a living faith in the 

 lives of men and all their relations with each other. This we 

 cannot have in the existing social order, nor under the rule of 

 its political economy. We can have it only in a social state in 

 which man can live his true life, and unfold the highest faculties 

 of his nature. 



The evils which now afflict society depend upon, and seem 



