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(1) Improving the dwellings of the poor is Socialism. (2) 
Leaving money to build a hospital is Socialism. (3) Free 
education is Socialism. (4) An Established Church is Social- 
ism. But while admitting the merits of Socialism, we must 
_ not forget the rights of individualism and of the family. © It 
is right to entertain our neighbour with food, cooked at the 
_ tribal fire, but we must not neglect to repair the hut that 
shelters our wives and children; or to keep in good order 
the clothes which enable us to face the blast and work 
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3 in the fields far from the hut and the fire. All those inside 
_ the involucre should be dear to us, but still dearer those inside 
the same corolla. The only precedent of a great State prac- 
tising modified Socialism is Sparta, where the boys were brought 
_ up together by the State, and money was scarcely used. But 
Sparta was not purely social, for Sparta was strictly mono- 
gamic. Of the two great philosophers of antiquity, Plato was 
a Socialist, a follower of Marx; Aristotle, a Darwinian, or a 
Spencerian. Plato went further than Sparta. He recommended 
_ that men and women, as well as children and _ property, 
should be sacrificed to the supposed exigencies of the State. 
But Platonism has never been adopted by mammals, far less 
by men. It is too late in the world’s history. The Hymen- 
optera are Socialists, of the Fabian Society type, but their 
_hervous system is ventral, not dorsal, their eyes compound, 
not simple, and they have antennze—organs denied to us. 
No animal with a dorsal nervous system ever has been or 
_ can be a pure Socialist. To become pure Socialists, we would 
have to retrace our steps—to lose our dorsal nervous system, 
and even our notochord, and after getting down to be a 
chordate Amphioxus, or a hemichordate Balanoglossus, then 
start afresh, on our upward road, as Arthropods. Even when 
we got rid of our backbone, what kind of insects are we to 
rise to be? Besides the Hymenopterous Socialists, the bees, 
there are also Neuropterous Socialists, the white ants. It 
would be a terrible thing if, after going such a long road in 
hopes of becoming four-winged, many-eyed bees, we found 
ourselves blind, wingless, white ants—-where the children toil 
and a few fortunate adults idle: something like the Manchester 
factory system upheld by John Bright and abolished by Lord 
