"SOCIALISM; ITS NATURE, ITS DANGERS, And its RemedIES CONSIDERED." LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1879. PREFACE. THE special interest taken in the sudden development of Modern Socialism, owing to recent events in Germany, has induced the author to collect a series of papers contributed to a periodical during the current year, which have received much kind attention, into a volume. This may serve as a short and popular account of the principal socialistic schemes from the Reformation to the present day, and might not improperly be called a short History of Socialism. Socialism is here regarded as a consecutive movement developed in the course of time, adapting itself to prevailing social conditions, and passing successively through the imaginative, the critical, and the scientific stages of an evolutionary process. |