Excerpt from Practicable Socialism: New Series
The first edition of Practicable Socialism was printed in 1888, the second in 1894. Now, twenty-one years afterwards, a new series is issued, but the most important of the two authors, alas! has left the world, and it therefore falls to me to write the introduction alone.
In selecting the papers for this volume, out of a very great deal of material, the principle followed has been to print those which deal with reforms yet waiting to be fully accomplished. It would have been easier and perhaps pleasanter to have taken the subjects dealt with in the previous volumes, and by grouping subsequent papers together, have shown how many of the reforms then indicated as desirable and "practicable," had now become accepted and practised. But so to do would not have been in harmony with our feelings. My husband counted the sin of "numbering the people" as due to a debased moral outlook, and the contemplation of "results" as tending to hinder nobler efforts after that which is deeper than can be calculated. Of him it is truthful to quote "His soul"s wings never furled."
The papers have been grouped in subject sections, and though the ideas have for many years been set forth by him in various publications, in most instances the writings here reproduced are under six years old.
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