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                         When the change comes, it will
embrace the whole of society, and there will be no discon-
tented class left to form the elements of a fresh revolution.
It is necessary that the movement should not be ignorant,
but intelligent. What I should like to have now far
more than anything else, would be a body of able, high-
minded, comrntent men, who should act as instructors.
I should Iookto those men to preach what Socialism
really is-not a change for the sake of change, but a
change involving the very noblest ideal of human life and
duty: a life in which every" human being should find un-
restricted scope for his best powers and faculties.
                            WILLIAM MORRIS:
                 First public utferance, after becoming member of
                           Sociaistic League.
                           Education is the prime neces-
sity, and it is hopeless to attempt to reconstruct society
without the existing materials.
                           WILLIAM MORRIS:
                  Letter to Lady Burne-Jones, September, 1883.
                         I could never forget that in spite
of all drawbacks, my work is little less than pleasure to
me; that under no conceivable circumstances would I
give It up, even if I could. Over and over again, I have
asked myself why should not my lot be the common lot.
My work is simple work enough; much of it, nor that
the least pleasant, any man of decent intelligence could
do, if he could but get to care about the work and its
results. Indeed, I hLave been ashamed when I have
thought of the contrast between my happy working hours
and the unpraised, unrewarded, monotonous drudgery
which most men are condemned to. Nothing shall con-
vince me that such labour as this is good or necessary to
civilization.
                           WILLIAM MORRIS:
                Lecture: "o4rt, Wealth and Riches; "given at
                TManchester Royat Institution, March 6, 1883.
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