The Progress of the Race 
perceiving them, longer still without ef- 
fecting aremedy? Ifa being exist whom 
his destiny calls upon most specially, al- 
most organically, to live and to organise 
common life in accordance with pure rea- 
son, that being is man. And yet see 
what he makes of it, compare the mis- 
takes of the hive with those of our own 
‘society. How should we marvel, for 
instance, were we bees observing men, as 
we noted the unjust, illogical distribution 
of work among a race of creatures that in 
other directions appear to manifest eminent 
reason! We should find the earth’s sur- 
face, unique source of all common life, 
insufficiently, painfully cultivated by two 
or three tenths of the whole population ; 
we should find another tenth absolutely 
idle, usurping the larger share of the pro- 
ducts of this first labour ; and the remain- 
ing seven-tenths condemned to a life of 
perpetual half-hunger, ceaselessly exhaust- 
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