We have a glimpse of the profound transformation of social ideas which was at work in the five or six lines of the article, _Journalier_.

"Journeyman--a workman who labours with his hands, and is paid day-wages.

This description of men forms the great part of a nation; it is their lot which a good government ought to keep principally in sight.

If the journeyman is miserable, the nation is miserable." And again: "The net profit of a society, if equally distributed, may be preferable to a larger profit, if it be distributed unequally, and have the effect of dividing the people into two classes, one gorged with riches, the other perishing in misery" (_Homme_).
The second element in the modern transition is only the intellectual side of the first.

It is the substitution of interest in things for interest in words, of positive knowledge for verbal disputation.