But many who cannot personally
enlist in the pioneer groups who for the next ten years will be engaged
in preparing the ground on which Associations are ultimately to arise,
are yet able to contribute something of their time and means to the
cause of humanity's emancipation from brutal drudgery.
And this something is eminently needed by that cause. The great work of
disseminating and defending the principles of social science needs
pecuniary aid; who will offer it? The secondary work of founding and
sustaining pioneer Associations also languishes for want of means.
Ought it to do so? I say founding, not that I would encourage the
commencement of any new undertaking, but because I consider no
Association founded as yet. We have a few beginning to clear the ground
for the work, and that is all.
But in this work noble men and women are engaged; to it they have
consecrated their energies; for it they suffer hardship and privations,
and are willing to suffer. But they cannot make their labor truly
effective without a large increase of capital, in every instance within
my knowledge. They commenced with little means, in no case sufficient
to pay for their land and buildings, and generally not half enough.
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