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... method of human intercourse. I know that here I go beyond the limits many Socialists in the past, and some who are still contemporary , have set them... ... of brotherhood, so social and economic organization will develop. But the Socialist may attack poverty for ever, disregarding the intellectual and mo... ...r conversion we did this darkly and with our hate spreading to persons and parties from the things for which they stood. But the believer will hate lo... ...in, write, lecture, read and listen. Every truly religious man, every good Socialist, is a propagandist. Those who cannot write or discuss can talk, t... ...radiction that in Great Britain and Western Europe gener- ally, just those parties that stand most distinctly for personal devotion to the State in ec... ...l devotion to the State in economic matters, the Socialist and Socialistic parties, are most opposed to the idea of military 99 H. G . Wells service,... ...mon Man has worked and is working infinite mischief. In politics the crude democratic faith leads directly to the submission of every question, howeve... ... These two ideas, firstly the pupil-teacher parental idea and secondly the democratic idea (that is to say the idea of an equal ultimate significance)...

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... speeches, to the cartoons of the comic papers or a chance reading of some Socialist pamphlet for any general ideas whatever about the huge swirling w... ... tobacco smoke against a background brown and deep. He professed himself a socialist with anarchistic leanings— he had suffered the martyrdom of ducki... ...rms of Sir William Harcourt, whose Death Duties had seemed at first like a socialist dawn. Mr. Evesham we asked to come to the Union every year, Maste... ... and the illus- trated newspapers one learnt something of the way in which parties were split, coalitions formed, how permanent offi- cials worked and... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... .... I saw myself striding on down that winding road, talking of politics and parties and bills of parliament and all sorts of dessicated things. That ro... ...all ages, and a scattering of aunts, and there was a tendency to clotting, parties kept together and regarded parties suspi- ciously. Mr. Seddon was i... ...ollection of people worked for me; two solicitors, a cheap photographer, a democratic parson, a number of dis- senting ministers, the Mayor of Kingham...

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...ntly occupied by the affairs of the White House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of ... ...dst the general perplexity. For it would not be upon a credit basis, but a socialistic basis, a basis of direct reality, and its need for payments wou... ...and consciences about property; whereas we were Individualists, now we are Socialists. The British lord, the German junker, has none of the sense of u... ...tically to rule Great Britain, and who are powerful and influential in all democratic countries. In order to secure a certain independence and integri... ... State than existed before—that is to say, a less individualistic and more socialistic State. And there seems a heavy weight of probability on the sid... ...ought and sold, in gross and detail, by financiers, advertisers, political parties, and the like. Ger- many came into the market rather noisily, and g... ...“go as you please,” or fail. And we find the affairs of nearly every great democratic State in the hands of a class of men not specially adapted to an... ...in relation to her general national life than 68 What Is Coming? the free democratic countries. She has to make a bureau- cracy that has not hitherto... ...fessor Michels has recently pointed out in his striking book on “Political Parties,” is the necessary reality of democratic government. By different m...

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...she asked. “I thought he would.” “Poff,” she cried suddenly, “you’re not a socialist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to b... ...ist?” “Such a vague term.” “But these friends of yours—they seem to be all Socialists. Red ties and everything complete.” “They have ideas,” he evaded... ...ssions that all ultimately re- solved themselves into an antagonism of the democratic and the aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the... ...e aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the exponent of the democratic idea. The next day he came down early, his talk with Benham stil... ...therly. And she began a fresh attack upon him by asking him if he wasn’t a Socialist and whether he didn’t want to pull down Chexington and grow potat... ... their inception. They were all more or less political careers. Whatever a democratic man may be, Prothero and he had decided that an aristocratic man... ...ays, he had been attentively inconspicuous in several really good week-end parties. He had spent a golden Octo- ber in North Italy with his mother, an... ...things, the only course for a sane man of honour was to stand out from the parties and try and get them back to sound issues again. There must be endl... ...“But I’m not going back to live in London in the old way, theatres, dinner-parties, chatter—” “Oh no! We aren’t going to do that sort of thing. We are...

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... at the same time stay right here in Zenith and be some blooming kind of a socialist agitator or boss charity-worker or some damn thing! Lord, and Ted... ...ew York Assembly has passed some bills that ought to completely outlaw the socialists! And there’s an elevator-runners’ strike in New York and a lot o... .... Vecchia was not a caterer, he was The Caterer of Zenith. Most coming-out parties were held in the white and gold ballroom of the Maison Vecchia; at ... ...hbrows; and to be an out-and-out spiritualist would be almost like being a socialist!” No one could long be serious in the presence of Vergil Gunch. “... ...d given him the beginning of a repu- tation for oratory, so the Republican-Democratic Central Committee sent him to the Seventh Ward and South Ze- nit... ... and it was always thinning into silence. Despite their reso- lution to be democratic they divided into two sets: the men with dress-clothes and the m... ... to Max Kruger, the banker, “Yes, we’ll put up Sir Gerald Doak.” Babbitt’s democratic love 169 Sinclair Lewis for titles became a rich relish. “You k... ...e of those quiet evenings that are often so much more enjoyable than noisy parties where everybody talks at once and doesn’t really settle down to-nic... ...tt had heard stories of what the Athletic Club called “goings on” at young parties; of girls “parking” their corsets in the dressing-room, of “cud- dl...

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...etoric of Carlyle and Ruskin 56 A Modern Utopia and the activities of the Socialists, is more apparent than real. The old edifice oppresses us still,... ...most exhaustive dis- cussion—nearly a century long—between Communistic and Socialistic ideas on the one hand, and Individualism on the other, emerges ... ...merges upon a sort of effectual conclusion to those controversies. The two parties have so chipped and amended each other’s initial propositions that,... ... very days when our political and economic order is becoming steadily more Socialistic, our ideals of in- tercourse turn more and more to a fuller rec... ...ire, or otherwise alienated them from his intimate self. A thorough-going, Democratic Socialist will 61 H G Wells no doubt be inclined at first to ob... ...ge. It must occur only under certain obvious conditions, the contract- ing parties must be in health and condition, free from spe- cific transmissible... ...least one-and-twenty; the man twenty-six or twenty-seven. One imagines the parties to a projected marriage first ob- taining licenses which will testi... ...a. I am inclined to imagine farming done by tenant associations, by little democratic unlimited liability companies working 135 H G Wells under elect... ...n odd little election is in progress. This is the selection, upon strictly democratic lines, with a suffrage that includes every permanent resident in...

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...ting side by side with a dissentient and probably revolutionary Labour and Socialist convention—both gatherings with unsatisfac- tory credentials cont... ...nd urgent merely European necessities, a patch-up that has been made quasi-democratic in a series of after- thoughts, the American Constitution is a r... ...yed it has to be fought on purely party lines. He is the select man of the Democratic half, or of the Republican half of the nation. He is not the sel... ...andates in this matter. At present all the po- litical luncheon and dinner parties in London are busy with smirking discussions of “Who is to go?” The... ... conditions that are by the standards of the general league satisfactorily democratic. That seems to be only the com- mon sense of the matter. Every c... ...hat is so or not, whether Germany is or is not to be one of the interested parties in the African solution, the fact remains that it is impossible to ... ...hese people scheme to prevent any communication between the Republican and Socialist classes in Germany and the Allied population. At any cost this cl... ...e of manipulation, that leads straight, not to the representation of small parties, but to a type of democratic government by selected best men. Befor...

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...to be said for a proper sort of socialism, Ruskin, and all that. We’re all Socialists nowadays. Ideals—excellent. But—it gets misunderstood. It gives ... ...o the vicarage of Mogham Banks. The vicar of Mogham Banks was a sacerdotal socialist of the most advanced type, with the reputation of being closely i... ...le and mischievous. The suffragettes became extraordinarily malignant; the democratic movement went rotten with sabotage and with a cant of being “reb... ...indolent, the French decadent, the Russians barbaric, the Americans basely democratic; the rest of the world was the “White man’s Burthen”; the clear ... ... these ridiculous or wicked little kings and emperors, and these political parties, and these policies and conspiracies, and this nationalist nonsense...

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...ent hours with his tailor. But instead of being a soldier he was a sort of socialist, and a red-hot revolutionary of a very ineffectual sort. “Good la... ...kirmished. “Yes. I was on guard one day when the Queen gave one of her tea-parties to the blind. Awful affair. But the children are awfully nice child... ...lt a little dim and superficial surprise. He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches. He felt... ...wrence the city, whether this soft-running automobile would ever rouse the socialistic bile of the work-people. For the first time in his life, as he ... ... a strange back-water. And the old families are very proud still, in these democratic days. They have a great opinion of themselves, I am told.” “Well... ...casion. He made the two elderly people uncomfortable with his silence: his democratic silence, Miss Wade might have said. However, Miss Wade lived out... ...row yesterday?” asked Levison. “No,” said Aaron. “What was it?” It was the socialists. They were making a demonstration against the imprisonment of on... ....— Oh, they’ll all come to realise it, when they’ve had a bit more of this democratic washer-women business.” Levison was laughing, with a slight snee...

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...arage. There were few people whom the Careys cared to ask there, and their parties consisted always of the curate, Josiah Graves with his sister, Dr. ... ...ws Homeward Fly , or Trot, Trot, My Pony . But the Careys did not give tea-parties often; the preparations upset them, and when their guests were gone... ...sed, and as Tar, otherwise Mr. T urner, said, it was undig- nified for all parties. He gave no warning, but after morning prayers would say to one of ... ...n’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.” He leaned back cautiously, fo... ...contradictory theories he vehemently believed in, and he stated now: “In a socialist state we should be richly pen- sioned, you and I, Betty . ” “Oh, ... ... richly pen- sioned, you and I, Betty . ” “Oh, don’t talk to me about your socialists, I’ve got no patience with them,” she cried. “It only means that...

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...pirit from the self, the reaction from the great aristocratic to the great democratic principle. An ordinary instinctive man, in Hamlet’s position, wo... ...h only the looser women go, with these reckless young men. He also gets up parties of pleasure, and is chiefly responsible for the coming of the playe... ...orce public opinion. Be- tween the clerical party and the radicals and the socialists, what canons were left that were absolute? Besides, these wild v... ...hould any one stay there! I went on up the pass itself. There were various parties of visitors on the roads and tracks, people from towns incon- gruou...

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...heir way back to the toler- ance, a trifle derisive, of the populace again—socialist ora- tors, politicians, a band, and the same wild uproar of dogs,... ...nd whispered artful-looking solicitors, busily scrib- bling reporters, the parties to the case, expert witnesses, in- terested people, and a jostling ... ...very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was by sheer habit and inadvertency that he permitted Firmin... ...ge produce. They are bodies small enough as a rule to be run on a strictly democratic basis, and large enough to supply all the labour, except for a c...

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... it freshly for a trifle; and the hoar-headed nineteenth-century billow of democratic ire craved the word to be set swelling. ‘Am I the fellow you mea... ...g; or when he was not too distinctly seen by her to be shooting at all the parties of her beloved England, beneath the wicked semblance of shielding e... ... 61 George Meredith The young gentleman introduced to the Radnor Concert- parties by Lady Grace Halley as the Hon. Dudley Sowerby, had to bear the si... ...view of safety from intrusion, I can admit-speaking humbly. But one of the parties—I had a wish to gratify him—is a lover of old English times and hab... ...s against money. Epigrams of Colney’s; abuse of it and the owners of it by Socialist orators reported in some newspaper corner; had him by the ears. T... ... ‘Court! my girl? But the arduous duties are over for the season. We are a democratic people retaining the seductions of monarchy, as a friend says; a... ...iors; and, over this country at least, require the refresh- ment, that the democratic sprouts in them may be recon- ciled with aristocracy. Do not lis...

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...one by them. Probably the farmers expected them not to eat. ‘There are two parties to a bargain,’ said Everard, ‘and one gets the worst of it. But if ... ...sturb their calculations. It was an extraordinary sitting, but none of the parties to it thought of it so when Nevil Beauchamp had plunged them into i... ... might abstain from politics.’ ‘We find it difficult to do justice to both parties,’ Miss Denham followed. ‘It seems to be a kind of clanship with wom... ...roportion to their utility? That was the question for Nevil Beauchamp. The democratic spirit inhabiting him, tempo- rarily or permanently, asked wheth... ...right of cutting furze for firing. Consider that! Beauchamp’s eyes flashed democratic in reciting this injury to the objects of his warm solicitude—th... ...” But you are right, colonel; we have had sufficient. I shall be getting a democratic orator’s twang, or a crazy parson’s, if I go on much further. He... ...t. ‘I have no doubt Shrapnel has a scheme for Jenny. The old communist and socialist!’ He folded up the letter: ‘A curious composition, is it not, Mis...

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...vangelical phrases in the service of the Devil. Passion is martyrdom. Both parties aspire to the Ideal, to the Infinite; love is to make them so much ... ...paign was not carried out without little dinners at the Rocher de Cancale, parties to the play, and gifts in the form of lace, scarves, gowns, and jew... ...ere a housewife who, since 1838, has not suffered from the evil effects of Socialist doctrines diffused among the lower classes by incendiary writers?... ...r Marshal. Lisbeth, quite as Republican as he could be, pleased him by her democratic opinions, and she flattered him with amazing dexterity; for the ...

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....................................................... 11 CHAPTER I MARX AND SOCIALIST DOCTRINE ........................................................... ... ever before to the demand for radical reconstruction. It is above all the Socialists, and in a lesser degree the Anarchists (chiefly as the inspirers... ...t-Syndicalism the same combination of ideal and organization as we find in Socialist political parties. It is from this standpoint that our study of t... ...me combination of ideal and organization as we find in Socialist political parties. It is from this standpoint that our study of these movements will ... ...wnership of land and capital. Com- munal ownership may mean ownership by a democratic State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State whic... ...c State, but cannot be held to include ownership by any State which is not democratic. Communal ownership may also be under- stood, as Anarchist Commu... ...of regulating the political affairs of the com- munity . But all alike are democratic in the sense that they aim at abolishing every kind of privilege... ...difficult to put trust in the State as a means to liberty, or in political parties as instruments suffi- ciently powerful to force the State into the ... ...roups of intellectuals, eager to possess the profits of public employment. Parties are con- stituted in order to acquire the conquest of these employ-...

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...tic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries? Two things result from this fact....

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...ack the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary ad versaries? Two things res... ...? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the prol... ... move ment. The Communists are distinguished from the other work ing class parties is only: (1) In the national struggles of the proletarians of the... ...condition for the free development of all. “The Communist Manifesto” 23 III SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE 1. REACTIONARY SOCIALISM A. Feudal Soc... ...th Feudal Social ism. Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge. Has not Christianity declaimed against private property,... ...m ended in a miserable fit of the blues. C. German, or “True,” Socialism The Socialist and Communist literature of France, a literature that originate... ...t of the fact that this party consists of antago nistic elements, partly of Democratic Socialists, in the French sense, partly of radical bourgeois.... ...e time. Finally, they labour everywhere for the union and agree ment of the democratic parties of all countries. The Communists disdain to conceal th...

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...ess of imagination, his lack of general ideas, has been the despair of the Socialist and of every sort of revo- lutionary theorist. He may have struck... ...d urgent social needs. They play a game, a long and interesting game, with parties as sides, a game that rewards the industrious player with prominenc... ...time is not far distant when insurrec- tionary leaders, calling themselves Socialists or Syndicalists, or what not, men with none of our experience, l... ...e a method of handling as our party-ridden State permits. In theory I am a Socialist, and were I theorising about some nation in the air I would say t... ... is an impos- sible social fragmentation. The transport service is to be a democratic republic, the mines are to be a democratic re- public, every gre... ...e mines are to be a democratic re- public, every great industry is to be a democratic republic 67 H. G . Wells within the State; our community is to ... ...d, a community of independent families protected by law and an intelligent democratic statecraft from the economic aggressions of large accumulations ... ...rganise a society, form a group for the control of the two chief political parties, bring about “socialism” in twenty-five years, or do anything beyon... ...the politi- cal arena at the same time, because only one party or group of parties can win. And going back for a moment to that point about a Uto- pia...

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...thlessly and entirely. And these repudiations extend also to the political parties that struggle to realize themselves within the forms of our establi... ...action-fighting may be turned for a time to- wards his remoter ends. These parties derive from that past when the new view of life had yet to establis... ... aim at all—as we of the new generation mea- sure comprehensiveness. These parties, and the phrases of party exposition—in America just as in England—... ...proffered half-crown. He will have listened to T rade Union organizers and Socialist speakers; he will have read the spe- cial papers of his class. Th... ... mankind in the world? How does it compare with the American conception of democratic equality, and how do both stand with regard to the essential tru... ...ater mass of our English-speaking people is living under the profession of democratic Republi- canism, there is no party, no sect, no periodical, no t... ...e country was drifting 149 H G Wells slowly towards the constitution of a democratic republic. In those days it was that there came into being a theo... ...ds a profounder revolu- tion, the control of private property. “We are all Socialists nowadays,” and it is needless, therefore, to argue here at any l... ...d he tests all things by their effect upon the evo- lution of man; he is a Socialist or an Individualist, a Free Trader or a Protectionist, a Republic...

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...the evi dence of Livy, and upheld, to the best of my ability, the Ro man Democratic party. A few years later, in my contempt of my childish efforts,... ...ory. Saturated as the book is with the opinions and modes of judgment of a democratic radicalism then regarded as ex treme; and treating with a sever... ...s. It allied itself with all my juvenile aspirations to the character of a democratic champion. What had hap pened so lately, seemed as if it might e... ...ency of an aristocratic body of this composition, to group itself into two parties, one of them in possession of the executive, the other endeavouring... ...dical Review, with pretensions equal to those of the established organs of parties, had excited much attention, there could be no room for hesitation,... ...th which they tilted against the very front of both the existing political parties; their uncompromising profes sion of opposition to many of the gen... ...only regarded as orthodox, and by his noble origina tion of the Christian Socialist movement. The nearest paral lel to him, in a moral point of view... ...be made more tolerable. In short, I was a democrat, but not the least of a Socialist. We were now much less democrats than I had been, because so long... ...d Democracy, and would class us decidedly under the general designation of Socialists. While we repu diated with the greatest energy that tyranny of ...

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...ift, has sarcastically remarked in one of his public speeches: “We are all Socialists now.” And in the sense in which it may be said that we all in Eu... ...a good prince and a good Republican, will succeed no doubt in being a good Socialist. He will disregard the stupid- ity of the dogma and the unlovely ... ...ation, for the honour, for the fun of the thing. The virtuous, industrious democratic States of to-morrow may yet be reduced to fighting for a crust o... ... arouse her cupidity be- cause she had salt mines of her own. No doubt the democratic complexion of Polish institutions was very distasteful to the co... ... modified and confirmed by two other treaties, which guaranteed to all the parties in a just and eternal union all their rights, liberties, and respec... ...at different times, simply be- cause good care was taken by the interested parties to stop the mouth of the accused. But it has never carried much con... ... its problems by its distant friends, the West- ern Powers, which in their democratic development must recognise the moral and intellectual kinship of... ... out that this plan is the only one offering serious guarantees to all the parties occu- pying their respective positions within the scheme. If her ex...

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...ar, they insist on first arriv- ing at an explicit understanding that both parties are to be perfectly free to sip every flower and change every hour,... ...re nobody knows; for in spite of the powerful protection af- forded to the parties by the law of libel, and the readiness of society on various other ... ...ctable man it can have only one meaning. The pious citizen, suspecting the Socialist (for example) of unmentionable things, and asking 5 Getting Marr... ...t highly civilized countries in the world, a marriage is dissolved if both parties wish it, without any question of conduct. That is what marriage mea... ... a bishop, any anarchist as a judge, any despot as a Whig, any sentimental socialist as a Tory, any philtre-monger or witch-finder as a man of science... ...here is some question of sexual morals to be dealt with. The business of a democratic statesman is not, as some of us seem to think, to convince the v... ...he pendulum” at the next election. Therein lies the peril and the glory of democratic statesmanship. A states- man who confines himself to popular leg... ...ds if the price is refused, and even to feel relieved at their escape. Our democratic and matrimonial institutions may have their merits: at all event... .... I share their instincts. In my undergraduate days I was a Re- publican-a Socialist. I tried hard to feel toward a common man as I do towards a duke....

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...n of slavery. For its alleviation we trust to the natural affection of the parties, and to public opinion. A father cannot for his own credit let his ... ...k at the same pace without distress and final loss of health to one of the parties. When they are sitting indoors they cannot endure the same degrees ... ..., may or may not exist: when it does it either depends on qualities in the parties that would produce it equally if they were of no kin to one another... ...ds and the weather. Such a state of mind is incompatible not only with the democratic introduction of high civilization, but with the comprehension an... ...ctions may be, that there are Monarchists and Republicans and Positivists, Socialists and Unsocialists, so it should know that there are Christians an... ...; and the same result is coming in England as fast as we make Democracy as democratic as it is in America. This is true also of popular religion: it i...

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...tbreak against monarchi cal and aristocratic despotism. In time, however, a democratic republic came to occupy a large portion of the earth’s surface... ... his being aware that other ages, coun tries, sects, churches, classes, and parties have thought, and even now think, the exact reverse. He devolves ... ...oned. There is confessedly a strong tendency in the mod ern world towards a democratic constitution of so ciety, accompanied or not by popular polit... ...ey describe is not only a conceivable and possible, but a probable result of democratic feel ing, combined with the notion that the public has a righ... ... only further On Liberty — Mill 103 to suppose a considerable diffusion of Socialist opin ions, and it may become infamous in the eyes of the major... ...t only persons are not held to engagements which violate the rights of third parties, but it is sometimes considered a suffi cient reason for releasi... ... peculiarity that its objects are frustrated unless the feelings of both the parties are in harmony with it, should require nothing more than the decl...

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... implements 6 Heartbreak House for forming the mind of the perfect modern Socialist and Creative Evolutionist. It was a curious experience to spend S... ...h law. The climax of legal lawlessness was reached in France. The greatest Socialist statesman in Europe, Jaures, was shot and killed by a gentleman w... ...hat our own militarism and our own political constitution are millennially democratic (which they certainly are not); but when it came to frantic denu... ...que that I cannot mention them without enabling the reader to identify the parties, which would not be fair, as they were no more to blame than thousa... ...the life of the tiger from a hunting party: one of King Edward’s hunt- ing parties in India. The King was furious: that was why he never had his milit... ...ad his military services properly recognized. But he doesn’t care. He is a Socialist and despises rank, and has been in three revolutions fighting on ... ...ming people, most advanced, unprejudiced, frank, hu- mane, unconventional, democratic, free-thinking, and ev- erything that is delightful to thoughtfu...

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...outside into strong relief. The Reverend James Mavor Morell is a Christian Socialist clergyman of the Church of England, and an active member of the G... .... Indepen- dent Labor Party, Greenwich Branch, on Thursday. Monday, Social-Democratic Federation, Mile End Branch. Thursday, first Confirmation class—... ..., I’ll introduce you to the biggest jobbers I can get to come to my dinner parties. BURGESS (who has risen with a sheepish grin and accepted the hand ...

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...scover How Not To Do It. Since Dickens’s day the exposures effected by the Socialists have so shat- tered the self-satisfaction of modern commercial c... ...ssumption is that the country is in danger, and that the first duty of all parties, politi- cians, and governments is to save it. But as the ef- fect ... ...festly doomed to the dustbin, the sooner it goes there the better; for the democratic control which naturally suc- ceeds it can easily be limited so a...

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...hen urged from reason and from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the congregati... ...rriage, on socialism, on se- 84 Essays cret societies, on the college, on parties and persons, that your verdict is still expected with curiosity as ... ... the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never shall meet them again.... ... an experiment in this way, and make themselves ridicu- lous. They acquire democratic manners, they foam at the mouth, they hate and deny. Worse, I ob... ...f that;—is pure of that.’ And nature advertises me in such persons that in democratic America 243 Emerson she will not be democratized. How cloistere... ...ecognizable, and in process of time will return to the mint. Nature is not democratic, nor limited-monarchical, but despotic, and will not be fooled o... ...perance and non-resistance societies; in movements of abolitionists and of socialists; and in very significant assemblies called Sabbath and Bible Con...

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...you, my boy, and play with your caucuses and leading articles and historic parties and great leaders and burning questions and the rest of your toys. ... ...: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and T sar, to Capital- ist and Socialist, to Protestant and Catholic, to burglar and policeman, to black m... ...astrous, and tyrannical of all the fools, rascals, and impostors. I want a democratic power strong enough to force the intellectual oligarchy to use i...

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...ought better of it.” “Am I to conclude,” said Miss Bartlett, “that he is a Socialist?” Mr. Beebe accepted the convenient word, not with- out a slight ... ...t twitching of the lips. “And presumably he has brought up his son to be a Socialist, too?” “I hardly know George, for he hasn’t learnt to talk yet. H... ....” “Pardon me,” said a frigid voice. “The chapel is somewhat small for two parties. We will incommode you no longer.” The lecturer was a clergyman, an... ...ic of some sort himself when he was young; then he took to writing for the Socialistic Press. I came across him at Brixton.” They were talking about t... ...would belong to a brainless club, and his wife would give brainless dinner parties. But down here he acts the little god with his gentility, and his p... ...?” “I don’t know whether they’re any Emersons,” re- torted Freddy, who was democratic. Like his sister and like most young people, he was naturally at...