that the most limited mind should not feel expansion and
know illumination in even the effort to comprehend what justice actually
is and involves. Instantly when its demand is heard and met, custom,
tradition, old beliefs, everything that hampers progress, slip away, and
actual values show themselves. The first step taken in such direction
means always a second. It is the beginning of the real march onward; the
ending of any blind drifting in the mass, with no consciousness of
individual power to move.

A deep conviction founded on eternal law is itself an education, and
whoever has once determined what the personal demand in life is, has
entered the wicket-gate and sees before him a plain public road, on
which all humanity may journey to the end.

Here then lies the answer, no less than in these last words, the ending
of one phase of work which still has only begun. For the day is coming
when every child born will be taught the meaning of wealth, of capital,
of labor. Then there will be small need of any further schools of
political economy, since wealth will be known to be only what the soul
can earn,--that which adheres and passes on with it; and capital, all
forces that the commonwealth can use to make the man develop to his
utmost possibility every power of soul and body; and labor, the joyful,
voluntary acceptance of all work to this end, whether with hands or
head. Till then, in the fearless and faithful acceptance of every
consequence of a conviction, in personal consecration to the highest
demand, in increasing effort to make happiness the portion of all, lies
the task set for each one,--the securing to every soul the natural
opportunity denied by the whole industrial system, both of land and
labor, as it stands to-day. This is the goal for all; and by whatever
path it is reached, to each and every walker in it, good cheer and
unflagging courage, and a leaving the way smoother for feet that will
follow, till all paths are at last made plain, and every face set toward
the city we seek!

* * * * *

_Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._

PRISONERS OF POVERTY

WOMEN WAGE-WORKERS: THEIR TRADES AND THEIR LIVES.

BY HELEN CAMPBELL,

AUTHOR OF "THE WHAT-TO-DO CLUB," "MRS. HERNDON'S INCOME," "MISS
MELINDA'S OPPORTUNITY," ETC.

16mo. Cloth. $1.00. Paper, 50 cents.

The author writes earnestly and warmly, but without prejudice, and
her volume is an eloquent plea f