LITTLE 

 JOURNEYS 



'now is." QBut it was not. Socialism is coming, by 

 slow degrees, imperceptibly almost as the growing of 

 spring flowers that push their way from the damp, 

 dark earth into the sunlight. 



And after socialism, what? perhaps the millennium 

 will still be a long way off. 



In 1847, when Tyndall was twenty-seven years old, 

 Robert Owen, one of the greatest practical men the 

 world has ever seen, cried aloud, "The time is at 

 hand!" 



Owen was an enthusiast all great men are. He had 

 risen from the ranks by the absolute force of his great, 

 untiring, restless and loving spirit. 



From a day laborer in a cotton mill he had become 

 principal owner of a plant that supported five thou- 

 sand people. 



Robert Owen saw the difference between joyless la- 

 bor and joyful work. His mills were cleanly, orderly, 

 sanitary and surrounded with lawns, trees and shrub- 

 bery. He was the first man in England to establish 

 kindergartens, and this he did at his own expense 

 for the benefit of his helpers. He established libraries, 

 clubs, swimming pools, night schools, lecture courses. 

 QAnd all the time his business prospered. 

 To the average man it is a miracle how any one in- 

 dividual could bear the heaviest business burdens and 

 still do what Robert Owen did. 



Robert Owen had vitality plus he was a gourmet for 

 work. William Morris was just such a man, only with 

 a bias for art, but both Owen and Morris had the in- 

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