But it is perfectly clear that people who live from day to day without plan, without rule, without forethought--who spend all their earnings, without saving anything for the future--are preparing beforehand for inevitable distress.

To provide only for the present, is the sure means to sacrificing the future.

What hope can there be for a people whose only maxim seems to be, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die"?
All this may seem very hopeless; yet it is not entirely so.

The large earnings of the working classes is an important point to start with.

The gradual diffusion of education will help them to use, and not abuse, their means of comfortable living.