24 THE DECENTRALISATION 



support no longer patiently the misery occasioned 

 by each crisis. And each crisis accelerates 

 the day when the present institutions of indivi- 

 dual property and production will be shaken to 

 their foundations with such internal struggles 

 as will depend upon the more or less good sense 

 of the now privileged classes. 



But we maintain also that any socialist attempt 

 at remodelling the present relations between 

 Capital and Labour will be a failure, if it does not 

 take into account the above tendencies towards 

 integration. These tendencies have not yet 

 received, in our opinion, due attention from 

 the different socialist schools but they must. 

 A reorganised society will have to abandon the 

 fallacy of nations specialised for the production 

 of either agricultural or manufactured produce. 

 It will have to rely on itself for the production 

 of food and many, if not most, of the raw 

 materials ; it must find the best means of com- 

 bining agriculture with manufacture the work 

 in the field with a decentralised industry ; and it 

 will have to provide for " integrated education," 

 which education alone, by teaching both science 

 and handicraft from earliest childhood, can give 

 to society the men and women it really needs. 



Each nation her own agriculturist and 

 manufacturer ; each individual working in the 

 field and in some industrial art ; each individual 



