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great political importance. For the socialistic regime is 

 simply another form of the bureaucratic regime. Military 

 regimentation, civil regimentation, and industrial regimen 

 tation, are in their natures essentially the same: the kin 

 ship between them being otherwise shown by such facts as 

 that while the military rulers have entertained schemes for 

 a qualified State-socialism, the ruled have advocated the 

 &quot; training of the nation in arms/ 7 as at the socialistic con 

 gress at Erfurt in 1891. And when we remember how lately 

 feudalism has died out in Germany how little Germans 

 have been accustomed to self -ownership and how much to 

 ownership by others we may understand how unobjec 

 tionable to them seems that system of ownership by others 

 which State-socialism implies. 



849. From time to time newspapers remind us of the 

 competition between Germany and France in their military 

 developments. The body politic in either case, expends 

 most of its energies in growths of teeth and claws every 

 increase on the one side prompting an increase on the other. 

 In France, to prepare for revenge, conscription takes a 

 greatly augmented part of the available manhood, including 

 even the young men who are presently to teach the religion 

 of forgiveness; so that, as a distinguished publicist states, 

 the effective strength of the army and navy has grown 

 from 470,000 in 1869 to GG6,000 for the forthcoming year: 

 leaving out of the comparison, as being producers, the re 

 serves, which raise the present fighting force to over 2,000,- 

 000. To support this non-productive class owned by the 

 State as fighters, the State makes the workers surrender a 

 proportionate part of their earnings, and owns them to the 

 extent of that part to a much larger extent, as we shall 

 presently see. Militant activity accompanies this militant 

 organization. It was recently lauded by the French Minis 

 ter for Foreign Affairs, who, referring to Tunis, Tongking, 

 the Congo, and Madagascar, enlarged on the need there had 



