.460 Human Physiology. 



to be inseparable "rom its actual organisation, and the prin- 

 ciples by which it is governed. As long as the competitive 

 system of wages and isolate industry exists, there will be poverty. 

 With poverty there will be disease, ignorance, drunkenness, 

 and immorality. The liquor trade belongs to the system of 

 demand and supply, and the supply creates the demand. Em- 

 ployers league with liquor-sellers to degrade labour for their 

 own gain. The vast multitude of non-producers live upon the 

 toil of those who work, and add to the extortions and oppres- 

 sions of capital ; and upon all presses the burthen of rent, of 

 interest upon capital, of the public debt, of an enormous taxa- 

 tion, a huge expenditure for army, navy, law, police, prisons, 

 prostitution, and the labour of the industrious pays for all; 

 for the grain made into beer and spirits, the land wasted in 

 growing hops, the millions worse than wasted on tobacco, the 

 support of every drunkard and pauper and lunatic, and all dis- 

 abled by intemperance and its kindred vices ; the pay of every 

 soldier, naval sailor, policeman the waste of profligacy and 

 prostitution. 



Does our society give us enough enjoyment to compensate 

 for all this, and make us content with our burthens ? Do we 

 not rather stagger on, grumblingly bearing them, because we 

 have seen no better way? The better way is for every man to 

 do what he can, be it much or little, to give men first the idea, 

 and then, as soon as may be, the practical realisation of a new 

 social order the order of justice and humanity. 



If there be no absolute ownership of land, or real property, 

 but that which belongs to the whole population of the country, 

 as represented by or personified in the State, where is the right 

 to buy or sell, and receive rents from property ? A man can 

 transfer to another, or leave to his heirs, only such rights as he 

 has ; and in England all real property is held by lease from the 

 Crown, which represents the eminent domain of the State or 

 people. All the great estates were bestowed by the Crown, not 



