For it has become pressing.

What is the use of your spun shirts?
They hang there by the million unsaleable; and here, by the million, are diligent bare backs that can get no hold of them.

Shirts are useful for covering human backs; useless otherwise, an unbearable mockery otherwise.

You have fallen terribly behind with that side of the problem! Manchester Insurrections, French Revolutions, and thousandfold phenomena great and small, announce loudly that you must bring it forward a little again.

Never till now, in the history of an Earth which to this hour nowhere refuses to grow corn if you will plough it, to yield shirts if you will spin and weave in it, did the mere manual two-handed worker (however it might fare with other workers) cry in vain for such "wages" as _he_ means by "fair wages," namely food and warmth! The Godlike could not and cannot be paid; but the Earthly always could.