And now finally one more clear and decisive proof based on these facts.  You have seen that in that factory of the Pioneers five hundred workmen were employed and sixteen hundred workingmen held the stock.  This much must also be clear to you—­that, unless we are willing to imagine the workmen as rich people (in which case all questions are solved—­in imagination), the capital necessary for the establishment of a factory can never be raised from the pockets of the workmen employed in it.  They will be obliged to take in a much greater number of other workingmen stockholders, who are not employed in their factory.  In this respect the proportion in the case of that factory of the Pioneers—­sixteen hundred stockholders to five hundred workingmen in the factory (say a proportion of only about three to one)—­may be called astonishingly favorable and unusual—­as small as is in any way possible, and to be accounted for partly by the especially fortunate situation of the Pioneers, who represent a great exception in the working class, partly by the fact that this branch of manufacturing is far from being one of those which require the heaviest capitalization, and partly because this factory is not large enough to count among the really large enterprises, for in these the proportion, even in this branch of industry, would be a very different one.  And, finally, it may be added that through the development of industrialism itself, and through the progress of civilization, this proportion must increase daily.  For the progress of civilization consists in the very fact that from day to day more natural mechanical power—­more machinery—­takes the place of human labor, and that accordingly the proportion of the amount of invested capital to the amount of human labor becomes larger; so then, if in that factory of the Pioneers sixteen hundred stockholders were necessary to raise the capital to employ five hundred workmen, a proportion of one to three, the proportion among other workmen in other branches and in larger establishments—­and also in consideration of the daily advance of civilization—­will be one to four, one to five, six, eight, ten, twenty, etc.  However, let us keep this proportion of one to three.  To establish a factory in which five hundred workmen find employment, I need sixteen hundred workingmen stockholders in order to have the necessary capital.  Very well:  as long as I try to establish one, two, three, etc., factories, there is no difficulty in theory (always in theory, Gentlemen—­in imagination), I call to aid (always in theory) the three, four, etc., times the number of workingmen stockholders.  But if I extend this association to the whole working class—­and their cause, not that of individuals who wish to improve their position, is in question here—­if in course of time I wish to establish factories enough to occupy the whole working class, where shall I get the three, five, ten, twenty-fold number of the whole working class who, as workingmen stockholders, must stand behind the workmen occupied in the factories in order to establish these factories?