further: 'Treasures of experience and practical wisdom are often buried
in workshops, for want of goodwill, opportunity, or encouragement.
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
is 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
hearted calculator, we tape a man who unites with the knowledge of these
facts the tender and generous sympathies of an evangelical heart, and
the elevation of a superior mind, he will extend his ardent solicitude;
not only to the material comfort, but to the moral emancipation, of
his workmen. Seeking everywhere every possible means to develop their
intelligence, to improve their hearts, and strong in the authority
acquired by his beneficence, feeling that he on whom depends the
happiness or the misery of three hundred human creatures has also the
care of souls, he will be the guide of those whom he no longer calls his
workmen, but his brothers, in a straightforward and noble path, and will
try to create in them the taste for knowledge and art, which will render
them happy and proud