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well these can be expected only when humanity, 

 breaking its present bonds, shall make a new start 

 in the higher principles of solidarity, doing away 

 with the present duality of moral sense and 

 philosophy. 



It is evident, however, that all men and women 

 cannot equally enjoy the pursuit of scientific 

 work. The variety of inclinations is such that 

 some will find more pleasure in science, some 

 others in art, and others again in some of the 

 numberless branches of the production of wealth. 

 But, whatever the occupations preferred by 

 everyone, everyone will be the more useful in 

 his own branch if he is in possession of a serious 

 scientific knowledge. And, whosoever he might 

 be scientist or artist, physicist or surgeon, 

 chemist or sociologist, historian or poet he 

 would be the gainer if he spent a part of 

 his life in the workshop or the farm (the work- 

 shop and the farm), if he were in contact with 

 humanity in its daily work, and had the 

 satisfaction of knowing that he himself dis- 

 charges his duties as an unprivileged producer 

 of wealth. 



How much better the historian and the soci- 

 ologist would understand humanity if they 

 knew it, not in books only, not in a few of its 

 representatives, but as a whole, in its daily life, 

 daily work, and daily affairs ! How much more 



