I defy any one to show me, in this case, any other alternative.

We should be compelled to contemplate the Divine plan which governs society, with the regret of thinking that it presents a deplorable chasm.

The stimulus of progress would be forgotten, or, which is worse, this stimulus would be no other than injustice itself.

But, no! God has not left such a chasm in his work of love.

We must take care not to disregard his wisdom and power; for those whose imperfect meditations cannot explain the lawfulness of leisure, are very much like the astronomer who said, at a certain point in the heavens there ought to exist a planet which will be at last discovered, for without it the celestial world is not harmony, but discord.
Well, I say that, if well understood, the history of my humble plane, although very modest, is sufficient to raise us to the contemplation of one of the most consoling, but least understood, of the social harmonies.
It is not true that we must choose between the denial or the unlawfulness of leisure; thanks to rent and its natural duration, leisure may arise from labor and saving.