itary game of hand ball on the side of the barn. But it is quite
impossible to imagine a successful game of baseball in which each
player should be drilled only in his own part, and should know nothing
of the relation of that part to the whole game. In order to make the
watch wheel, or the coat collar interesting, they must be connected
with the entire product--must include fellowship as well as the
pleasures arising from skilled workmanship and a cultivated
imagination.

When all the young people working in factories shall come to use their
faculties intelligently, and as a matter of course to be interested in
what they do, then our manufactured products may at last meet the
demands of a cultivated nation, because they will be produced by
cultivated workmen. The machine will not be abandoned by any means,
but will be subordinated to the intelligence of the man who
manipulates it, and will be used as a tool. It may come about in time
that an educated public will become inexpressibly bored by
manufactured objects which reflect absolutely nothing of the minds of
the men who made them, that they may come to dislike an object made by
twelve unrelated men, even as we do not care for a picture which has
been painted by a dozen different men, not because we have enunciated
a theory in regard to it, but because such a picture loses all its
significance and has no meaning or message. We need to apply the same
principle but very little further until we shall refuse to be
surrounded by manufactured objects which do not represent some gleam
of intelligence on the part of the producer. Hundreds of people have
already taken that step so far as all decoration and ornament are
concerned, and it would require but one short step more. In the
meantime we are surrounded by stupid articles which give us no
pleasure, and the young people producing them are driven into all
sorts of expedients in order to escape work which has been made
impossible because all human interest has been extracted from it. That
this is not mere theory may be demonstrated by the fact that many
times the young people may be spared the disastrous effects of this
third revolt against the monotony of industry if work can be found for
them in a place where the daily round is less grinding and presents
more variety. Fortunately, in every city there are places outside of
factories where occupation of a more normal type of labor may be
secured, and often a restless boy can