412 CONCLUSION. 



to verify it by themselves may easily do so by 

 calculating the real expenditure for labour 

 which was lately made in the building of work- 

 men's houses by both private persons and 

 municipalities * that under a proper combina- 

 tion of labour, twenty to twenty-four months of 

 one man's work would be sufficient to secure for 

 ever, for a family of five, an apartment or a 

 house provided with all the comforts which 

 modern hygiene and taste could require. 



And it has been demonstrated by actual ex- 

 periment that, by adopting methods of education, 

 advocated long since and partially applied here 

 and there, it is most easy to convey to children 

 of an average intelligence, before they have 

 reached the age of fourteen or fifteen, a broad 

 general comprehension of Nature, as well as of 

 human societies ; to familiarise their minds 

 with sound methods of both scientific research 

 and technical work, and inspire their hearts with 

 a deep feeling of human solidarity and justice ; 

 and that it is extremely easy to convey during 

 the next four or five years a reasoned, scientific 



* These figures may be computed, for instance, from the data 

 contained in " The Ninth Annual Report of the Commissioner of 

 Labour of the United States, for the year 1893 : Building and 

 Loan Associations." In this country the cost of a workman's 

 cottage is reckoned at about 200, which would represent 700 

 to 800 days of labour. But we must not forget how much of 

 this sum is a toll raised by the capitalists and the landlords 

 upon everything that is used in building the cottage : the bricks 

 and tiles, the mortar, the wood, the iron, etc. 



