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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ...condemnation of modern Socialism--Dr. Woolsey Gronland's co-operative commonwealth--Nihilism--The International--Its history and end--Hyndman--H. V. Mills--Pauper colonies of Holland--Penal colonies of Australasia--Their wonderful success--The Irish exodus--The present wealth of Irish emigrants in America and the colonies--Reflections upon these three great instances of recuperative human power--The story of Er--Close of Plato's Republic--Necessity for immediate action--Time and tide wait for no man--Responsibilities of national leaders and higher classes. JX many ages, and in many lands, men have devised plans for the welfare and happiness of their fellows. From the days when prophets foresaw, in the distant periods of the earth's history, the millennial reign of peace, and Plato taught, in the gardens of the Academy, to our own times, men have indulged in these dreams and anticipations of a state of perfect justice, and perfect righteousness upon earth. Utopian as were their dreams, Utopian as were their hopes, rudely disturbed as they all were by the din of war and the selfishness of civilised life, they show that in every age there has existed a belief that a better state of society could be found than now exists, and a hope that such a happy result might be accomplished. The Communistic and Socialistic experiments made during the last 100 years contain more important lessons than philosophy has given them credit for. They have been attempts to solve the social problem upon one side, while the great organisations of which the trades and labour unions, the friendly societies, and the co-operative bodies are typical and representative have been attempting the same task on the other. While the schemes of the Socialist and Communist leaders have been too wi...
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