Excellent workmen, instead of making all the improvements in their power, follow with indifference the old jog-trot.What a pity! for an intelligent man, occupied all his life with some special employment, must discover, in the long run, a thousand ways of doing his work better and quicker.I will form, therefore, a sort of consulting committee; I will summon to it my foremen and my most skillful workmen.Our interest 1s now the same.Light will necessarily spring from this centre of practical intelligence.' Now, the speculator is not deceived in this, and soon struck with the incredible resources, the thousand new, ingenious, perfect inventions suddenly revealed by his workmen, `Why' he exclaims, `if you knew this, did you not tell it before? What for the last ten years has cost me a hundred francs to make, would have cost me only fifty, without reckoning an enormous saving of time.' 'Sir, answers the workman, who is not more stupid than others, "what interest had I, that you should effect a saving of fifty per cent? None.But now it is different.You give me, besides my wages, a share in your profits; you raise me in my own esteem, by consulting my experience and knowledge.
Instead of treating me as an inferior being, you enter into communion with me.It is my interest, it is my duty, to tell you all I know, and to try to acquire more.' And thus it is, Mdlle.Angela, that the speculator can organize his establishment, so as to shame his oppositionists, and provoke their envy.Now if, instead of a cold-