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acquire by your side, the rapid growth of their 

 intelligence, and the facility with which they 

 will grasp the laws of Nature, animate and in- 

 animate. 



Have the factory and the workshop at the 

 gates of your fields and gardens, and work in 

 them. Not those large establishments, of course, 

 in which huge masses of metals have to be dealt 

 with and which are better placed at certain 

 spots indicated by Nature, but the countless 

 variety of workshops and factories which are 

 required to satisfy the infinite diversity of tastes 

 among civilised men. Not those factories in 

 which children lose all the appearance of children 

 hi the atmosphere of an industrial hell, but those 

 airy and hygienic, and consequently economical, 

 factories in which human life is of more account 

 than machinery and the making of extra profits, 

 of which we already find a few samples here and 

 there ; factories and workshops into which men, 

 women and children will not be driven by 

 hunger, but will be attracted by the desire of 

 finding an activity suited to their tastes, and 

 where, aided by the motor and the machine, they 

 will choose the branch of activity which best 

 suits their inclinations. 



Let those factories and workshops be erected, 

 not for making profits by selling shoddy or use- 

 less and noxious things to enslaved Africans, but 

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