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they will give when they have become pro- 

 ducers of wealth. Suppose such an education is 

 given, and analyse its probable consequences. 



I will not insist upon the increase of wealth 

 which would result from having a young army 

 of educated and well-trained producers ; nor 

 shall I insist upon the social benefits which 

 would be derived from erasing the present 

 distinction between the brain workers and the 

 manual workers, and from thus reaching the 

 concordance of interest and harmony so much 

 wanted in our times of social struggles. I 

 shall not dwell upon the fulness of life which 

 would result for each separate individual, if he 

 were enabled to enjoy the use of both his mental 

 and bodily powers ; nor upon the advantages 

 of raising manual labour to the place of honour 

 it ought to occupy in society, instead of being 

 a stamp of inferiority, as it is now. Nor shall 

 I insist upon the disappearance of the present 

 misery and degradation, with all their conse- 

 quences vice, crime, prisons, price of blood, 

 denunciation, and the like which necessarily 

 would follow. In short, I will not touch now 

 the great social question, upon which so much 

 has been written and so much remains to be 

 written yet. I merely intend to point out in 

 these pages the benefits which science itself 

 would derive from the change. 



