ii2 THE COMING OF SOCIALISM 



States : in seeking the well-being of the citizens, which 

 is becoming more and more their ruling purpose, they 

 not only enlarge their own functions, but strengthen and 

 secure themselves. So that, taking both sides together, 

 and viewing both aspects of the truth, the process shows 

 itself to be both a more intense integration and a more, 

 diverse articulation of the moral cosmos. It is synthesis 

 and analysis at one stroke ; it is the growth of society as 

 an active unity with an ever-increasing number of 

 obligations and variety of services to the individual, and 

 also the deepening of the individuality of the citizens as 

 free and efficient personalities. 



If this be true, we are entitled to look to the future 

 not without confidence. No doubt the creation of ever 

 new and more powerful combinations within the State 

 brings difficulties. They can neither be let alone nor 

 " regulated" or " annulled" rashly. And in our dealings 

 with them we cannot lean on the experience of the race, 

 for in this respect our times are untried. Nevertheless 

 these combinations, whether of labour or capital, and the 

 regulation or assumption of their functions by the State, 

 are not things to be in themselves deplored. Organisation 

 is economy and power, and never the mere negation and 

 displacement of the private will. It is not, therefore, to 

 be resisted and retarded as a matter of course. Jt is 

 possible for order and liberty to grow together: it is 

 certain that they cannot grow apart. 



But, it will be asked, does this mean that we are to 

 welcome any and every municipal or State activity? Is 

 all increase of corporate enterprise a liberation of the 

 individual's force ? By no means, I would answer. There 

 are many reasons why every new departure should be 



