The modern organisation of industry works in the same direction also by another line. The exigencies of the modern industrial system frequently place individuals and households in juxta- position between whom there is little contact in any other sense than that of juxtaposition. One’s neighbours, mechanically speaking, often are socially not one’s neighbours, or even acquain- tances; and still their transient good opinion has a high degree of utility. The only practicable means of impressing one’s pecuniary ability on these unsympathetic observers of one’s everyday life is an unremitting demonstration of ability to pay.