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sible. But that is the capitalist's view of the 

 matter, not the community's view. 



As to the workers, who ought to be the real 

 managers of industries, they will find it healthy 

 not to perform the same monotonous work all 

 the year round, and they will abandon it for 

 the summer, if indeed they do not find the 

 means of keeping the factory running by 

 relieving each other in groups. 



The scattering of industries over the country 

 so as to bring the factory amidst the fields, 

 to make agriculture derive all those profits 

 which it always finds in being combined with 

 industry (see the Eastern States of America) 

 and to produce a combination of industrial with 

 agricultural work is surely the next step to be 

 made, as soon as a reorganisation of our present 

 conditions is possible. It is being made already, 

 here and there, as we saw on the preceding 

 pages. This step is imposed by the very neces- 

 sity of producing for the producers themselves ; 

 it is imposed by the necessity for each healthy 

 man and woman to spend a part of their lives 

 in manual work in the free air ; and it will 

 be rendered the more necessary when the great 

 social movements, which have now become 

 unavoidable, come to disturb the present in- 

 ternational trade, and compel each nation to 

 revert to her own resources for her own main- 



