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often means a prodigal and frightful waste. 

 Some have to work too hard and too long : 

 others cannot get any work to do at all or get 

 it irregularly and uncertainly : others, who 

 might work, do not and will not the idlers at 

 both ends of the social scale, the moral refuse 

 produced by our economic system. This 

 system is exactly what we find in nature 

 generally ; but one would think that human 

 beings nwht use their reason to discover some 

 less wasteful scheme. Water will find its own 

 level ; but how much mischief may it cause in 

 so' doine ? mischief which can be avoided. 

 We have beautiful flowers or miserable weeds 

 in our gardens according as a skilful gardener 

 "interferes" or not; and when he thins out an 

 overcrowded bed, he need not throw away the 

 plants : there are many who would be glad 

 to have them. It is all one great problem of 

 distribution. Here is so much work needing to 

 be done and so many persons to do it. The 

 organisation of labour is not an easy task ; but 

 is it hopeless ? At least we might diminish the 

 ^organisation, which is the system of mere 

 nature, as that appears to rational beings. 

 Cannot human societies imitate the higher 



