ABSTRACT
Several conversations took place between an artist, a scientist, and an industrial, on matters of great importance. European society is no longer composed of children who, in their own interest, need to be subject to strict and active supervision. It is composed of men whose education is complete and who are only in need of instruction. It is a reproach, gentlemen, which is well founded. Unity, the virtue and protector of the weak, is also one of the requirements of strength. The industrials, who are the physical force of the social body, and who can become a moral force whenever they wish, must impress upon themselves the idea of their importance and the duties which that importance imposes, and must strive to spread these sentiments throughout the class of producers. It is chiefly the industrials involved in a continuous series of labour who are burdened by the yoke of routine.
