Average Expiniscs of Workins? Glen's Fuinilu's in Miit 

 ill 188;l, $:TAA2. 



Average Earnings of Working Men, S-"j58.G8. 



CHAPTER IX. 



PERILS. —SOCIALISM. 



Socialism attempts to solve the problem of suffering 

 without eliminating the factor of sin. It says: '' From 

 each according to his abilities; to each according to 

 his wants." But this dictum of Louis Blanc could be 

 realized only in a perfect society. Forgetting, as Herbert 

 Spencer remarks, that " there is no political alchemy b}^ 

 which you can get golden conduct out of leaden in- 

 stincts," socialism thinks to regenerate society without 

 first regenerating the individual; or, perhaps more 

 accurately, it proposes to transform the individual by 

 transforming society, and expects to work this regen- 

 eration by reorganizing society on a co-operative, instead 

 of a competitive, basis. It talks much of fraternity, but 

 forgets what Maurice finely said, that "there is no fra- 



