to a master, and bound to society? Socialism is but the substitution of the community for the slave-owner. If we are compelled to labour for other benefit than our own, what does it matter whether it be to a single person or a society? "If, without option, he has to labour for the society, and receive from the general stock such portion as the society award him, he becomes a slave to the society. Socialistic arrangements necessitate an enslavement of this kind; and towards such an enslavement many recent measures, and still more the measures advocated, are carrying us." Very soon we shall be subject to "the tyranny of organizations." Well may Prince Bismarck display leanings towards State Socialism. "There seems no getting people to accept the truth, which, nevertheless is conspicuous enough, that the welfare of a society and the justice of its arrangements are at bottom dependent on the character of its members; and the improvement in neither can take place without that improvement in character which results from carrying on peaceful industry under the restraints imposed by an orderly social life. The belief, not only of the Socialists, but also of those so-called Liberals who are diligently preparing the way for them, is that by due skill an ill-working humanity may be framed into well-working institutions. It is a delusion. The defective natures of citizens will show themselves in the bad actions of whatever social structure they are arranged into. There is no political alchemy by which you can get golden conduct out of leaden instincts " (HERBERT SPENCER).