Ceasing to be predatory in their habits, they became co-workers, and found in fraternity, at once, the science of wealth and happiness.

'What shall I eat and drink, and wherewithal shall I be clothed ?' stated as a problem beginning and ending in self, had been an anxious and an endless one.

But when once it was conceived, not from the individual, but the fraternal standpoint, 'What shall we eat and drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed ?'--its difficulties vanished.
"Poverty with servitude had been the result, for the mass of humanity, of attempting to solve the problem of maintenance from the individual standpoint, but no sooner had the nation become the sole capitalist and employer than not alone did plenty replace poverty, but the last vestige of the serfdom of man to man disappeared from earth.

Human slavery, so often vainly scotched, at last was killed.

The means of subsistence no longer doled out by men to women, by employer to employed, by rich to poor, was distributed from a common stock as among children at the father's table.