build up co-operation, is our one necessity.

Now, to get closer to details; you probably know that every man in
civilization is worth, so to say, more than his skin; working, as he
must work, socially, he can produce more than will keep himself alive
and in fair condition; and this has been so for many centuries, from
the time, in fact, when warring tribes began to make their conquered
enemies slaves instead of killing them; and of course his capacity of
producing these extras has gone on increasing faster and faster, till
to-day one man will weave, for instance, as much cloth in a week as
will clothe a whole village for years: and the real question of
civilization has always been what are we to do with this extra
produce of labour--a question which the phantom, fear of starvation,
and its fellow, desire of domination, has driven men to answer pretty
badly always, and worst of all perhaps in these present days, when
the extra produce has grown with such prodigious speed. The
practical answer has always been for man to struggle with his fellow
for private possession of undue shares of these extras, and all kinds
of devices have been employed by those who found themselves in
possession of the power of taking them from others to keep those whom
they had robbed in perpetual subjection; and these latter, as I have
already hinted, had no chance of resisting this fleecing as long as
they were few and scattered, and consequently could have little sense
of their common oppression. But now that, owing to the very pursuit
of these undue shares of profit, or extra earnings, men have become
more dependent on each other for production, and have been driven, as
I said before, to combine together for that end more completely, the
power of the workers--that is to say, of the robbed or fleeced class-
-has enormously increased, and it only remains for them to understand
that they have this power. When they do that they will be able to