30 SUB-DIVISION OF GROUPS.

wholly or partially, or left to private enterprize, stimulated
 and assisted by the state ; missionary education authorized
 by the state, must belong to sound science only,
but, should include instruction in the improved methods
of civilization, for example, in building, arranging and
furnishing dwelling houses ;. colonization of unsettled
countries by emigration under national providence and
care.
Since the example from the fourth group is the last
of those we purpose to take for illustration in this place,
we will endeavour to put some of the immediate relstions
 which belong to the subjects of the member selected
 for illustration, with more particularity before the
reader.
From the fourth group, subsection :—
‘The rights and claims on the nation, and the national
duties of the Labourer.’
The first question is—what meaning is to be attached
to the expression . . labourer ? Every one that works is, in
a sense, a labourer. But work may be either intellectual
 or physical; the work may be compulsory or free ;
it may be undertaken unwillingly . . through necessity,
willingly as a pleasure, as a recreation, out of a desire to
be useful, as a physical or intellectual exercise, The
workman may be a highly educated and intellectual man,
or may be quite ignorant and possessed of only the
minimum share of human intelligence. It is at once
evident that the expression labourer, as commonly used
and understood, excludes most of these descriptions of
work and workmen.
A labourer may be defined as one of that class of