390 BRAIN WORK AND 



It is evident that celerity of work is a most 

 important factor in production. So it might 

 be asked if, under the above system, the neces- 

 sary speed of work could be obtained. But there 

 are two kinds of celerity. There is the celerity 

 which I saw in a Nottingham lace-factory : 

 full-grown men, with shivering hands and 

 heads, were feverishly binding together the ends 

 of two threads from the remnants of cotton- 

 yarn in the bobbins ; you hardly could follow 

 their movements. But the very fact of re- 

 quiring such kind of rapid work is the con- 

 demnation of the factory system. What has 

 remained of the human being in those shiver- 

 ing bodies ? What will be their outcome ? 

 Why this waste of human force, when it could 

 produce ten times the value of the odd rests of 

 yarn ? This kind of celerity is required ex- 

 clusively because of the cheapness of the 

 factory slaves ; so let us hope that no school 

 will ever aim at this kind of quickness in work. 



But there is also the time-saving celerity 

 of the well-trained worker, and this is surely 

 achieved best by the kind of education which 

 we advocate. However plain his work, the 

 educated worker makes it better and quicker 



very low fee. But imagine such a school connected with a 

 farm school, which grows food and exchanges it at its cost 

 price. What will be the cost of education then ? 



