What is to be done then?
Raise the wages of the more homicidal trades! But this could only be done by all the Unions acting in concert.

Now the rival philosophers, who direct the Unions, are all against Democritus--that's myself; they set no value on life.

And indeed the most intelligent one, Grotait, smiles blandly on Death, and would grind his scythe for him--AT THE STATEMENT PRICE--because that scythe thins the labor market, and so helps keep up prices." "Then what can we do?
I'm a proof one can't fight the Unions." "Do?
Why, lay hold of the stick at the other end.

Let Pseudo-Philosophy set the means above the end, and fix its shortsighted eyes on Labor and Capital, omitting Life.

(What does it profit a file-cutter if he gains his master's whole capital and loses his own life ?) But you and I, Mr.
Little, are true philosophers and the work we are about to enter on is--saving cutlers' lives." "I'd rather help take them." "Of course; and that is why I made the pounds guineas." "All right, sir," said Henry, coloring.