Excerpt from Stepping-Stones to Socialism
Socialism, the dominant topic of the present day, has not had to emerge in its propagandism as an entirely new birth of time. Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sydney, and Lord Bacon were amongst its earlier precursors. Saint Simon, Charles Fourier, and Robert Owen, theorized and taught in a more recent period. Here, as in other things, the thoughts of the past are the inheritance of the present. Various socialistic standards are now reared, each the rallying point of its greater or lesser host of adherents: under which flag do we venture to enlist? or, like Hal-o"-the-wynd, do we "fight for our own hand?"
Broadly speaking, the advocates of socialism, - differing far less in their ultimate aims than in their proposed methods of accomplishment, - may be said to have had their prototypes in the two historic schools of geology.
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