Some may allege that this is not justifiable--that it is a sin against the proletariat to attempt to rise in the world,--that "once a cobbler always a cobbler." But, until a better system has been established, the self-application of individuals is the only method by which science and knowledge can be conquered, and the world permanently advanced.
Goethe says, "It is perfectly indifferent within what circle an honest man acts, provided he do but know how to understand and completely fill out that circle;" and again, "An honest and vigorous will could make itself a path and employ its activity to advantage under every form of society." "What is the best government ?" he asks: "That which teaches us to govern ourselves!" All that we need, in his opinion, is individual liberty, and self-culture.

"Let every one," he says, "only do the right in his place, without troubling himself about the turmoil of the world." [Footnote 1: The best account of Mr.Walker is to be found in the Appendix to the Poems of Wordsworth.

The poet greatly appreciated the clergyman's character, and noticed him in his "Excursion," as well as in the Notes to the Sonnets entitled "The River Duddon."] At all events, it is not by socialism, but by individualism, that anything has been done towards the achievement of knowledge, and the advancement of society.

It is the will and determination of individual men that impels the world forward in art, in science, and in all the means and methods of civilization.
Individual men are willing to deny themselves, but associated communities will not.

The masses are too selfish, and fear that advantage will be taken of any sacrifices which they may be called upon to make.