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Science. That object is to secure for the Working 

 Classes those provisions against misfortune, sick- 

 ness, accident, and age, which are amongst the 

 first duties of all organised societies of men. How 

 far through such agency the causes of pauperism 

 may be successfully attacked, is a question on 

 which we are only entering. In like manner, the 

 conditions and limitations under which Combina- 

 tion may succeed in blending the functions and 

 in uniting the profits of Capital and of Labour 

 — this also is a question to be determined by 

 Natural Laws, not yet fully explored or under- 

 stood. But enough is known, and results suffi- 

 ciently determinate have already been secured, 

 to convince us that in this great department of 

 Natural Law, as in every other, the Will of Man 

 is not powerless when its energies are directed 

 by wisdom, and when the choice of its methods 

 is founded upon knowledge. 



This is, indeed, the great lesson to be learnt 

 from every inquiry into the constitution and 

 course of things. Nature is a great armoury of 

 weapons, and implements, for the service and 

 the use of Will. Many of them are too ponder- 



