We all draw our impulse toward perfection I ot from vulgar opinion or from our pay, but from the approval of fellow craftsmen. Allowing something for the first two, I suspect the third is the principal reason. No great proportion, I imagine, of our task. Washing dishes is not thought desirable, and yet men do it joyfully when they go camping together. Class organization is not, as some people assert, necessarily hostile to freedom.
All organization is, properly, a means through which freedom is sought.
As conditions change, men are compelled to find new forms of union through which to express themselves, and the rise of industrial classes is of this nature. In fact, the question of freedom, as applied to class conditions, has two somewhat distinct aspects. The first of these has been much better understood in America than the second. That it is wrong to keep a man down who might rise is quite familiar, but that those who cannot rise, or do not care to, have also just claims is almost a novel idea, though they are evidently that majority for whom our institutions are supposed to exist. Owing to a too exclusive preoccupation with ideals of enterprise and ambition, a certain neglect, and even reproach, have rested upon those who do quietly the plain work of life.