It has its injustices, which must be pruned, but the tree itself must be guarded and cherished by every man desirous of benefiting mankind. Let our social reformers teach that it will not benefit the poor to impoverish the rich; cease to measure the distance of the majority of the people from the splendour of the few very wealthy, and put before them the practical aim of rising above want and squalor, the anxiety of to-morrow, by steady industry and thrift. The misery of the poor is the disease of the body politic, but inequality is the life of the body politic. Its lesson is, that there is room for the exertions of all, room for hope to all.

In "Socialism made Plain" we have set forth in as brief a compass as possible, not the opinions of a Socialist, but the foundations of all Socialism. "But private ownership of land in our present society is only one and not the worst form of monopoly. . . . Out of the thousand millions of pounds taken by the classes who live without labour, out of the total yearly production of thirteen hundred millions, the landlords who have seized our soil, and shut us out from its enjoyment, absorb little more than sixty millions as their share. The few thousand persons who own the National Debt . . . exact twenty-eight millions yearly from the labour of their countrymen for nothing; the shareholders who have been allowed to lay hands on our great railway communications take a still larger sum. Above all, the active capitalist class, the loan-mongers, the farmers, the mine-exploiters, the contractors, the middle-men, the factory lords, these, the modern slave-drivers, these are they who, through their money, machinery, capital, and credit, turn every advance in human knowledge, every further improvement in