Its object has been to expose that radical misconception of
facts which renders demands visionary that would not be visionary
otherwise, and to stimulate all sane and statesmanlike reformers by
helping them to see, and also to explain to others, that the improved
conditions which socialism blindly clamours for are practicable only in
proportion as they are dissociated from the theories of socialism.
FOOTNOTES:
[31] Like all generalisation dealing with complex matters, this must be
qualified by individual exceptions. For example, men who have made
fortunes for themselves, and have added to the world's stock, by work in
the gold-fields, have been in many cases _labourers_, directing their
own efforts by their own intelligence. But some men have been
exceptional in one or other of two ways--either in propinquity to the
scene of action, or (and this is the more common case) in handihood,
determination, and courage. It is not every one who has it in him to go
in search of gold to Alaska.
INDEX
Ability, and labour defined, 19;
labour as opposed to, 29;
capital as the implement of, 32;
a name for the directive faculties, 33;
value of directive, 68;
monopoly of business, 89, 93;
and individual motive, 110;
modern socialists' recognition of products due to, 191;
rent of business, 191, 194
Abstract justice, interest and, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 216, 218,
220, 222, 224, 226
Activity, two kinds represented by two groups of, 28;
military distinct from industrial, 121
Agriculture, Mill on nature in, 181;
and rent, 192
Allen, Grant, _The Woman Who Did_, 147
Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning-frame, 83, 197
Artist, the case of an, 115
Bastiat, his plane, 213, 214
Bellamy, _Looking Backward_, 92;
his description of a socialistic Utopia, 92;
his argument, 105
Bessemer, 197, 220
Boy messengers, 80
Bradlaugh, Charles, 85
Brazil, Rossi fails to found a socialistic colony in, 141
Brigand chief, his justification, 206
Capital, is labour in an externalised and permanent form, 14;
is past labour crystallised, 14, 20;
as the implement of ability, 32;
fixed and circulating, 35;
the primary function of, 40;
its interest described by George as the gift of nature, 212
Capitalism (a comparatively modern phenomenon), causes of its
accelerated development, 2;
as a working system, 3;
essence of modern, 14;
and wages, 16;
state and private, 62, 71;
economics of: the "economic man" and economic science, 123, 124
Cause and effect, 185
Cellini, Benvenuto, 24
Christian socialism as a substitute for secular democracy,
_see_ Democracy; the message of, 153;
its view of the steel-kings and the oil-kings, 153, 158, 160;
its preaching a species of ecclesiastical electioneering, 156;
and the faculty of invention, 159;
abolishes competition, 160;
on the moral conversion of able men, 160
_Christian Socialist, The,_ 150
Christian socialists, are simply secular socialists of the more modern
and educated type, 163;
their temperamental deficiency finds its fullest expression in
socialism, 172
Coleridge, Lord, 135
Colossal fortunes, growth of, 130, 131
Competition, 160
Corvee system, and slavery, 57, 58
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