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Labor must fault itself further, on the ground of its lack of power of combination and of its defective methods in combination.

It has been by combination that the middle class has arisen, and by it that capital has so wonderfully increased.

The story of the Middle Ages, familiar to us all, is the story of the rise of the industrial class by combination in guilds.

Labor's numbers, now a hindrance, might thus become a help.