women, if not in something worse.

Art and science are very beautiful things; but just because they are
so beautiful they should not be spoiled by the compulsory
combination with them of vice: that is to say, a man should not get
rid of his obligation to serve his own life and that of other people
by his own labor. Art and science have caused mankind to progress.
Yes; but not because men of art and science, under the guise of
division of labor, have rid themselves of the very first and most
indisputable of human obligations,--to labor with their hands in the
universal struggle of mankind with nature.

"But only the division of labor, the freedom of men of science and
of art from the necessity of earning them living, has rendered
possible that remarkable success of science which we behold in our
day," is the answer to this. "If all were forced to till the soil,
those VAST results would not have been attained which have been
attained in our day; there would have been none of those STRIKING
successes which have so greatly augmented man's power over nature,
were it not for these astronomical discoveries WHICH ARE SO
ASTOUNDING TO THE MIND OF MAN, and which have added to the security
of navigation; there would be no steamers, no railways, none of
those WONDERFUL bridges, tunnels, steam-engines and telegraphs,
photography, telephones, sewing-machines, phonographs, electricity,
telescopes, spectroscopes, microscopes, chloroform, Lister's
bandages, and carbolic acid."

I will not enumerate every thing on which our age thus prides
itself. This enumeration and pride of enthusiasm over ourselves and
our exploits can be found in almost any newspaper and popular