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Analyses of Books. 
[September : 
Our Comer Vol. VI. No. July i, and No. 2, August i, 1885. 
London : Freethought Publishing Company. _ 
These two issues are, in our opinion p^KMSoral^Orlto say 
teresting than the genera 1 y 0 j exclusively political, 
the cnme thine: in other words, they are less exciuaiv y f 
the same tm 0 Ttpcant on the “ Evolution of bociety 
The papers by Mrs. Be s ant nove i } nee d repeating 
contain many truths which, if no > they pass unnoticed. 
with ever increasing emphasis so lo ^ organisation is not 
The author shows that our mod. srn mdu: tnal organ e 
in all respeCts an improvement. She writ. . WO rk- 
of the slight division of labour 
manship which is now almo apparent and had scope for 
under this system, was at once ’ PP more c i ose ly united 
development, so that ait and y . , Benvenuto 
than they have sense, and 
Cellini) was largely a handicraitsma /„ ometimes the one was 
the handicraftsman was large y an Quentin Matseys), and 
transformed into the other, as in . ^ • ted physical vigour 
side by side with this cental townfa^the acclssi- 
in consequence of the small size d all this ? 
bility of the open country. machinery “ should have 
The writer shows that the re8U “ " f ij mi nution of the hours 
been wide-spread comfort an a g accum ulation of vast 
of labour; the result of it has n t and the brutali- 
fortunes by a comparatively few , the deaden.^ d ^ 
sing of crowds of the g s ‘ hall find them very different 
immediate or the & eneia ' , t0 t h e world the outcome 
from the rosy hopes of hose T w ° es S e truths are expounded with 
of their inventive genius. illustration. But why has 
much ability and with a w ea th of illusl nation ^ h ^ man 
machinery been put to the \ b quantity of goods as 
greed. Instead of producing . , t increase production, 
before in less time, men preferred simply to in ^ rease P d he re . 
It has been said that machines [‘) ed In .’he Carolinas, 
semblance goes further th PP there was m erelv the 
besides tendency of machinery as now applied is 
“mean white, and the te or << hands ” to the posi- 
to reduce all who are neit « . g strenuous ly insisted 
tion of “ mean whites. , [ tvDe cannot be bred in a 
on. It is ur | ed ‘^L^antfugliness and clangour, sent to labour 
slum, trained amid filth and 8 and lasses who come 
ere maturity. ■■ “d warehouses at the close of every 
tumbling out of factories and horseplay , s set the seal 
day, filling the streets wm , y „ We cou ld say 
nf the sordid conditions under which they nve. v 
this subieCt did our allotted space allow us. _ 
more on this suDjeci u ,, , ^ Bingham, is a sound, 
