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    196 THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILTu.

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    .. * • Part Ii. Co-Operation. Neail The ...

    What tlien can be done to "balance this new power ? It may be said that in a free country all men are free to save and take an even

    chance of becoming * capitalists . It is true that they are so far on an equalityet would it not be far better ifinstead of having * as

    industrious now , an equal y ; men chance could calculat of standing e on a on more a summit eve , n remuneration , all honest , and , and

    and be This raised benevolent problem to a hig hearts has her engaged level during ? the this attention century of and many they acute seem intellects to be

    , small agreed scale on one is become point , namel impossible y—that . any " A return people" to observes production Mr . Mill on a ,

    " who have once adopted the large system of production , , either in manufactures or in agriculture , are not likely to recede from it ;

    support nor , when is population there sufficient is _kej _3 t in reason due wh prop y o they rtion should to the . means Labor of is

    unquestionabl , y more any productive on the system of large industrial enterprises : the produce , if not greater absolutely , is greater in

    proportion to the labor employed : the same number of persons can be supported equallwell with less toil and greater leisure ;

    which will be wholly an y advantage as soon as civilization and improvement have so far advanced that what is a benefit to the

    whole shall be a benefit to each individual composing it . The larg problem e scale is , to without obtain dividing the efficiency the producers and economy into of two production parties with on a

    hostile interests , , employers and employed , the many who do the work being mere servants under the command of the one who supplies

    the funds , and having no interest of their own in the enterprise , excep The t joint to fulfil stock their princi contract le is and capable earn their of solving wages thi . " s problemand

    is now rapidly becoming p recognised by all classes of trades . , But its battles have been most severe , partly on account of its

    apparently democratic tendency , partl - y because it early became mixed up with moral and social questions with which it has _jDroperly no

    necessary concern . It was successively associated in the public mind with the St . Simonians , the Fourierites , and the disciples of

    Robert Owen ; the followers of the three systems of social phiunited losophy in , thoug appreciating h they b the y value no means of co- agreed operation among in every themselve department s , all

    of lifeand as their moral theories were strongly opposed both to reliion , and to common sensea kindred slur attached itself to the

    _jDrinci g ple of associated labor upon , which their speculations reposed as a basis . Its inherent truth , however , gradually caused it to make

    published of way it . was Exp an made erim account ents by were a of house his tried - system painter and found of in operation Paris to answer , a as M ; . earl an Leclaire app y as lication 1842 , who .

    Many other co-operative establishments have been formed during the last twenty years in Paris , and their commercial success has

    been signal , although being more or less worked by men who came

    196 The Opinions Of John Stuart Miltu.

    196 THE OPINIONS OF JOHN STUART MILTu .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 196, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/52/