Excerpt from Commonsense Socialism: The Inadequacy of the Reward of Labour, the Depression of Trade, and the Organization of Material Progress
Socialism, in its proper sense as opposed to Individualism, is in the ascendant and may be considered already the faith of the majority of those who give any thought to the great social problems. The State may be hard upon those who call themselves Socialists or Social Democrats and who are merely the noisiest, or the most extreme representatives of Socialism, but Society has nevertheless been imbued with the socialistic doctrine and is absorbing it eagerly. There is no need to look for proof to republican France or America, we can find it nearer at hand at home. With compulsory education - probably soon to be free, - with the recent factory and shop hours regulation, with the Irish Land Act and other measures of a similar character, Socialism may claim fairly to have converted or subdued the majority of the British people. There is only a difference of degree between the socialistic tendency of these measures and that of the most advanced scheme advocated by professed Socialists.
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