Of these three thousand children two thousand nine hundred and forty were saved--by a change of environment. Had the environment been left unchanged probably not 2 per cent, would have escaped ruin. As their parents were, so would they have been. Had their parents been rescued in _their_ youth only 2 percent of them would have failed. The experience of Dr. Bamado and his friends with the children taken from the slums was very similar. The percentage of failures was small, and the London papers, in their obituaries of the good doctor, speak enthusiastically of the value of his work, and say that thousands of children rescued by him and his agents "are now steady and prosperous citizens beyond the seas." Since Dr. Bamado took up the work over fifty-five thousand children have been saved--by changed environment. From an article by Mr. R. B. Suthers in the _Clarion_ of August, 1904, I quote the following account of the George Junior Republic, an American institution, founded by Mr. William R. George, in 1896. The Junior Republic is a collection of 100 hooligans, juvenile criminals, and unfortunate boys and girls who live under a constitution based on that of the United States. The government is government of the citizens, for the citizens, and by the citizens. Children of all ages are admitted, but the rights of citizenship are not granted to those under 12, and at 21 the juniors are drafted into the great republic outside. Schooling is compulsory up to the age of 16, after which the citizen has the choice of many trades, in the Junior Republic, including farming, carpentering, printing, dairying, or he may be a cook, waiter, store keeper, or office boy. The girls may go in for dressmaking, cooking, and laundry work. These boys and girls, recruited from the slums and the criminal forcing beds of the great cities, _govern_ themselves. They make their own laws, appoint their own officials, run their own gaol, and are practically as free as the citizens of the big republic of which they become full-fledged members when grown up. Mr. George asserts that he has never known them when administering the law, to give an unjust or foolish decision. Remember they were hooligans, criminals, and wastrels. It ought not to be necessary to argue that children well brought up will turn out better than children ill brought up. We all know that such must be the case: we all see every day of our lives that, such is the case: we all _know_ the power of environment for good as well as for evil. But facts are stubborn things, and the above are stubborn facts. I have hitherto dealt almost wholly with the environment of the poor, but it is needful also to say something as to the environment of the rich, as Mr. Chesterton's mistakes have shown. The chief evils of the environment of the rich are wealth, luxury, idleness, and false ideals.