It follows from this, that all labour engaged in is conducted by men who are passionately attracted to it; and it may easily be imagined how much more earnest and skilful it is than any to which we are usually accustomed. The rich and the noble are no less eagerly attracted by it, and the happiest consequences arise from their working side by side with their fellow-creatures." The Fortnightly Review, November, 1872.

Article "Fourier," p. 540.

[To sum up. Man's Destiny is one of Society and Industry, but also of a Society based upon an Industry which may, according to the conditions in which it is placed, be either as the rule repugnant, and from the necessity of which men would, if possible, escape—or as the rule attractive, and in such manner attractive, as to be pursued everywhere, at all times and all cases, voluntary and even ardently—and the question of the day, therefore. the question which includes all others, the question to which the sequel of this work must, to be of any value, afford some answer, is simply this :-Can Industry be placed in such conditions relatively to all men and women workers, as to become always and everywhere attractive, -in such manner namely attractive-that there shall be neither enforced labour, nor idler, nor sham worker,nor yet pauper,-that fungus of an ill-conditioned Industrial state?-AUTHOR.]

END OF THE IDEA OF WILL

AND OF

THE FIRST PART.

Plate III. is not yet completed, the intention being to complete it as a Second Part of the work, or accompanied by an Explanatory Text on the same model as that of Plates I. and II.

THE THIRD IDEA OF MAN.

PLATE III.

INTRODUCTORY.

The original intention, as stated in the Preface (page VIII.) of this volume, had been to reserve Plate III. entirely for a separate or second division of the work, but it having been suggested that the publication of this Plate, even in an incomplete state, and without explanatory Text, would much assist the comprehension of the preceding Plates, I. and II., it has been finally deemed advisable to make the addition in question, by adopting the actual form of an Appendix, in the hope that its contents, however curtailed, may nevertheless answer the purpose of rounding off the general argument to a more sufficient degree.

Under these circumstances, therefore, a very few words will be necessary as an introduction to the reading of the Plate. The Spirit of Affection is, namely, here again (Upper Section of the Plate) represented equally as heretofore, as the prime mover, and, as such, urging through Love to the Union of the Sexes, or to Marriage;