The service of the people by science and art will only be performed
when people, dwelling in the midst of the common folk, and, like the
common folk, putting forward no demands, claiming no rights, shall
offer to the common folk their scientific and artistic services; the
acceptance or rejection of which shall depend wholly on the will of
the common folk.

It is said that the activity of science and art has aided in the
forward march of mankind,--meaning by this activity, that which is
now called by that name; which is the same as saying that an
unskilled banging of oars on a vessel that is floating with the
tide, which merely hinders the progress of the vessel, is assisting
the movement of the ship. It only retards it. The so-called
division of labor, which has become in our day the condition of
activity of men of science and art, was, and has remained, the chief
cause of the tardy forward movement of mankind.

The proofs of this lie in that confession of all men of science,
that the gains of science and art are inaccessible to the laboring
masses, in consequence of the faulty distribution of riches. The
irregularity of this distribution does not decrease in proportion to
the progress of science and art, but only increases. Men of art and
science assume an air of deep pity for this unfortunate circumstance
which does not depend upon them. But this unfortunate circumstance
is produced by themselves; for this irregular distribution of wealth
flows solely from the theory of the division of labor.

Science maintains the division of labor as a unalterable law; it
sees that the distribution of wealth, founded on the division of
labor, is wrong and ruinous; and it affirms that its activity, which