with
each other: that the strong do not knock down the weak but patiently
wait for them and make room for them: that ladies walk about with no
protection or escort: that things are exposed for sale with no other
guard than a boy or a girl: that most valuable articles are hung up
behind a thin pane of glass. You will further observe men in blue--you
call them policemen--who stroll about in a leisurely manner looking on
and taking no part in the bustle. What do these policemen do? In the
roads the vehicles do not run into one another, but follow in rank and
order, those going one way taking their own side. Everybody is orderly.
Everything is arranged and disposed as if there was no such thing as
violence, crime, or disorder. You think it has always been so? Nay:
order in human affairs does not grow of its own accord. Disorder, if you
please, grows like the weeds of the hedge side--but not order.

Again, you always find the shops well provided and filled with goods.
There are the food shops--those which offer meat, bread, fruit,
vegetables, coffee, tea, sugar, butter, cheese. These shops are always
full of these things. There is never a day in the whole year when the
supply runs short. You think all these things come of their own accord?
Not so: they come because their growth, importation, carriage, and
distribution are so ordered by experience that has accumulated for
centuries that there shall be no failure in the supply.

Again, you find every kind of business and occupation carried on without
hindrance. Nobody prevents a man from working at his trade; or from
selling what he has made. One workman does not molest another though he
is a rival. You think, perhaps, that this peacefulness has come by
chance? Nay: strife comes to men left without rule--but not peace.

You may observe further, that the streets are paved with broad stones
convenient for walking and easy to be kept clean: that the roadways are
asphalted or paved with wood, and are also clean: things that must be
thrown away are not thrown into the streets: they are collected in carts
and carried away. You think that the streets of cities are kept clean by
the rain? Not so: if we had only the rain as a scavenger we should be in
a sorry plight.

You find that water is laid on in every house. How does that water come?
That gas lights up houses and streets. How does the gas come? That drains
carry off the rain and the liquid refuse. How did the drains come?

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