But I am convinced that modern civilization will be judged,
not by what it has done, but by what it has left undone ; not by
what it has remedied, but by what it has failed to heal, or at
least to have relieved ; not by its successes, but by its short-
comings. It may be that the progress of some has been more
than counterbalanced by the distress and sorrows of many ; that
the opulence and strength of modern times mock the poverty
and misery which are bound up with and surround them ; and
that there is an uneasy and increasing consciousness that the
other side hates and threatens.
" It may be well the case, and there is every reason to fear it
is the case, that there is collected a population in our great
towns which equals in amount the whole of those who lived in
England and Wales six centuries ago, but whose condition is
more destitute, whose homes are more squalid, whose incomes
are more uncertain, whose prospects are more hopeless than



14 THE DISTRIBUTION OP WEALTH.
