utterly forgotten them. We have so entirely forgotten them, that
others have undertaken to instruct them, and we have not even
perceived it. We have spoken of the division of labor with such
lack of seriousness, that it is obvious that what we have said about
the benefits which we have conferred on the people was simply a
shameless evasion.



CHAPTER IV.



Science and art have arrogated to themselves the right of idleness,
and of the enjoyment of the labor of others, and have betrayed their
calling. And their errors have arisen merely because their
servants, having set forth a falsely conceived principle of the
division of labor, have recognized their own right to make use of
the labor of others, and have lost the significance of their
vocation; having taken for their aim, not the profit of the people,
but the mysterious profit of science and art, and delivered
themselves over to idleness and vice--not so much of the senses as
of the mind.

They say, "Science and art have bestowed a great deal on mankind."

Science and art have bestowed a great deal on mankind, not because
the men of art and science, under the pretext of a division of
labor, live on other people, but in spite of this.