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352 ME7HODS OF SOCIAL REFORM.<br />

wonderful or more satisfactory. But in the matter <strong>of</strong> small<br />

goods conveyance I have shown that blindness, monopoly,<br />

waste <strong>of</strong> labour, chaotic want <strong>of</strong> system yet prevail. So,<br />

though parcels may s0em B petty matter, I yet hold that there<br />

ia in thL direction a really great work <strong>of</strong> social reform to be<br />

achieved. There is no reason why we should be separated as<br />

we are, either in Britain or in Greater Britain. When we<br />

learn to utiliae properly our wonderful railway system, and to<br />

take advantage <strong>of</strong> the recent enormous progress <strong>of</strong> steam<br />

navigation, thoro is no reason why we should not make the<br />

whole world kin. Fricndship, literature, science, art, civilisation<br />

in all its phases, arc promoted by nothing so surely as tho<br />

interchaago <strong>of</strong> ideas and <strong>of</strong> goods. A universal parcel post<br />

would be tho harbinger <strong>of</strong> universal free trade.

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