2. The workingmen owe their work to the establishment which pays them; it is as much their interest as their duty. The result of _laziness_ and _intemperance_ is _misery_. We cannot enough deplore the use of what is called the _Mondays_--a day of rest over and beyond the legitimate and necessary Sunday. It is certain that one day of rest in a week is absolutely a necessity. No man can nor ought (except in circumstances unavoidable) work without interruption the whole year through. But the week's day of rest once secure, all that is over and above that, is taken from what belongs to the family and the provisions against old age. 3. Supposing that, in consequence of the progress of industry, the number of hours of rest could be increased--that, for example, the hours of the day's work could be reduced--these hours of rest should then be devoted to the family, to the cultivation of the mind, and not to the fatal pleasures of intoxication. The workingmen have certainly a right to ask, as far as they are worthy of it, equality of consideration and influence in society; and all our modern laws are so constituted as to insure them this equality. It rests with them, therefore, to render themselves worthy of this new equality by their morals and their education. To have their children educated; to educate themselves; to occupy their leisure with family interests, in reading, in innocent and elevating recreations (music, the theatre, gardening, if possible), it is by all such pursuits that the workingmen will reduce or entirely remove the inequality of manners and education which may still exist between them and their superiors.