_Labour._――In one of his earliest works, “The Time Machine,” Mr. H. G. Wells forecasts a development of the labour situation very different from that of the ordinary socialist Utopia. He figures an arrangement by which all labour is done underground, and is done by creatures (one can hardly call them “people”) whose bodies and minds are thoroughly adapted to their task. The picture seems to be a skit on the Victorian idea of the “family” upstairs and the servants in the basement, but a grim and novel touch is added by the information that the workers actually live on those that dwell in the light, coming up at night to take them away in their sleep. Such a solution, though it may draw some justification from the bee-hive or the ant-heap, is not at all likely to be adopted by the human race of the future. The essential service of Christianity, the kernel which will remain after the mythological and dogmatic accretions have been shed, is to provide mankind with an imagination capable of conceiving and realizing the sufferings of other people and creatures, and the will to remedy or obviate them as far as possible. Through centuries of abuse, neglect and misinterpretation that gift has gradually worked into the mass of civilized humanity. The humanitarian ideal is explicit and articulate in France, while in England it is disguised under such expressions as “decency” and “playing the game,” or “live and let live.” That it has not yet remade the world is due mainly to two causes: the arrogance of those to whom money or social position gives an advantage over smaller people, and the hatred and mistrust engendered by this arrogance among the masses. A workman in a physically fit condition does not object to working. He sometimes feels the drudgery, boredom, or discomfort of it, but if he is a skilled craftsman, his pride in his work gives him an interest and satisfaction which helps him over many hours of toil. What he does object to is to be driven and bullied by an unsympathetic and perhaps unjust overseer, who turns out the master on every occasion and lets him feel his power. He wants and sometimes admires a leader, but he does not want a slave-driver. In war, there is the same difference between the “come on” officer and the “go-on” officer, and the same effect on discipline. I believe that the co-operation of larger organized masses of men will not only be required in the future as in the past, but that its scale will eventually exceed anything yet seen in our history. The key to the smooth working of such organizations is the spirit in which the enterprise is undertaken. Let us give two examples, one from the present day and one from, say, the year 2,000. (1) A.D. 1925: (a) Navvies required. Apply Eastern Counties Railway Co.’s Depot.... (b) Eastern Counties Railway Co., Ltd. The 250,000 5% Cumulative Participating Preference Shares are now offered for public subscription, payable as follows.... (2) A.D. 2000: