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in the factory ; and it will always remain an 

 important factor in the growth of thousands of 

 young and new trades. 



But the question arises, Why should not the 

 cottons, the woollen cloth, and the silks, now 

 woven by hand in the villages, be woven by 

 machinery in the same villages, without ceas- 

 ing to remain connected with work in the 

 fields ? Why should not hundreds of domestic 

 industries, now carried on entirely by hand, 

 resort to labour-saving machines, as they 

 already do in the knitting trade and many 

 others ? There is no reason why the small 

 motor should not be of a much more general 

 use than it is now, wherever there is no need 

 to have a factory ; and there is no reason 

 why the village should not have its small 

 factory, wherever factory work is preferable, 

 as we already see it occasionally in certain 

 villages in France. 



More than that. There is no reason why the 

 factory, with its motive force and machinery, 

 should not belong to the community, as is 

 already the case for motive power in the above- 

 mentioned workshops and small factories in 

 the French portion of the Jura hills. It is 

 evident that now, under the capitalist system, 

 the factory is the curse of the village, as it 

 comes to overwork children and to make 



