The sweeping changes which have been effected in the social and political condition of the labourer, and the important factor which he is now recognised to be in tho State, are known to every reader of tho daily papers. But he was so long taught that the contrat social involved only duties on his part towards the State, that he scarcely ever dreamt that the State on its side owed him certain obligations, and to many of his class bhe sudden import ance they have acquired of late years is a surprise they have not yet got over. Fifty years ago it had only occurred to one man Thomas Carlyle, to preach the new gosoel of the responsibility of the State. In one of his " Latter Day Pamphlets " he has these words: " The State is nob a dramaturgy * itexietshereto render existence possible and noble for the State's workers." There is tho duty of the State mapped ouj^ ?l fe W irordT'A.
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