everything that makes towards the pleasure of life in a communal state will pay if it be possible to be done. Therefore it is clear that the degradation of a whole country by careless industrialism will not be allowed. Granted the dirt and squalor reduced to a minimum, which we think would leave but a small residuum, how is the burden of even that small residuum to be dealt with? It being understood that the manufacture in question is a necessary one, say, for example, iron-founding, there would be two ways, either of which might be chosen. First, to have volunteers working temporarily in a strictly limited and comparatively small “black-country,” which would have the advantage of leaving the rest of the country absolutely free from 313 the disorder and dirt. And secondly, to spread the manufacture in small sections over a territory so large that in each place the disadvantages would be little felt. This would have the gain of enabling those who worked at it to live amidst tolerably agreeable surroundings.
A difficulty of the same sort would have to be met with in the towns. Great