Now what I want to do is to put definitely before you a cause for which to strive. That cause is the Democracy of Art, the ennobling of daily and common work, which will one day put hope and pleasure in the place of fear and pain as the forces which move men to labor and keep the world a-going.
·····William Morris
Transcriber’s Note
Minor punctuation errors have been repaired.
Inconsistent hyphenation is preserved as printed.
Assuming typographic errors, the following amendments have been made:
Page [12]—fibre amended to fiber—... women and girls seated upon fiber mats ...
Page [44]—practised amended to practiced—... is the commonly practiced method ...
Page [79]—insized amended to incised—... and the bird, flowers and pedestals were incised ...