This is not too fantastic a demand or too ideal a state to be divinely hoped for, believed in and brought to pass.[10]

  [Footnote 10:  Of the 21,000,000 spindles in the United States, the
  South has 6,000,000. $35,381,000 of Carolina’s wealth is in
  cotton mills.

NOTE.  I have seen, in Aragon, Georgia, hope for the future of the mill-hands.  The Aragon Cotton Mills are an improvement on the South Carolina Mills and are under the direct supervision of an owner whose sole God is not gain.  Mr. Walcott is an agitator of the nine-hours-a-day movement; he is opposed to Child Labour, and in all his relations with his hands he is humane and kindly.  I look to the time when Aragon shall set a perfect pattern of what a mill-town should be.  It is already quite the best I have seen.  Its healthfulness is far above the average, and its situation most fortunate.]

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Not inapt here is the pagan idea of Nous, moving upon chaos, stirring the stagnant, unresponsive forces into motion; agitating these forces into action; the individual elements separate and go forth, each one on its definitely inspired mission.  Some inevitable hour shall see the universal agitation of the vast body known as the “labouring class.”  For the welfare of the whole world, may it not come whilst they are so ignorant and so down-pressed.