362 THE YOUNG AMERICAN.

the hour. They have paid it so; but not an in-
stant would a dime remain a dime. In one hand
it became an eagle as it fell, and in another hand a
copper cent. For the whole value of the dime is in
knowing what to do with it. One man buys with
it a land-title of an Indian, and makes his posterity
princes; 0r buys corn enough to feed the world;
0r pen, ink, and paper, or a painter’s brush, by
which he can communicate himself to the human
race as if he were fire; and the other buys barley
candy. Money is of no value ; it cannot spend it-
self. All depends on the skill of the spender.
Whether too the objection almost universally felt
by such women in the community as were mothers, to
an associate life, to a common table, and a common
nursery, etc., setting a higher value on the private
family, with poverty, than on an association with
wealth, will not prove insuperable, remains to be
determined.

But the Communities aimed at a higher success
in securing to all their members an equal and
thorough education. And on the Whole one may
say that aims so generous and so forced on them
by the times, will not be relinquished, even if these at-
tempts fail, but will be prosecuted until they succeed.

This is the value of the Communities ; not What
they have done, but the revolution which they in-
ilicate as on the way. Yes, Government must edu<