Certainly the nation was behind it." "What year was the _Two-Thirds Majority Bill_ passed ?" asked Percy.
"Oh! long before--within a year or two of the fall of the House of Lords.

It was necessary, I think, or the Individualists would have gone raving mad....

Well, the _Necessary Trades Bill_ was inevitable: people had begun to see that even so far back as the time when the railways were municipalised.

For a while there was a burst of art; because all the Individualists who could went in for it (it was then that the Toller school was founded); but they soon drifted back into Government employment; after all, the six-per-cent limit for all individual enterprise was not much of a temptation; and Government paid well." Percy shook his head.
"Yes; but I cannot understand the present state of affairs.

You said just now that things went slowly ?" "Yes," said the old man, "but you must remember the Poor Laws.