x PREFACE 



themselves the overwhelming satisfaction of suicide 

 from satiety. 



Equally with the author, I agree that the only 

 legitimate capital, anthropologically considered, is 

 the human organism and the forces of nature, 

 factors of production which cannot harmonise with 

 justice and the law of evolution unless collectively 

 sustained and directed. The earth for all, the 

 natural energies for all, talent for all : this is the 

 fair division of future society. It is, then, according 

 to Dr Lluria, highly important to re-establish man 

 according to the law of evolution ; to apply capital, 

 diverted to the enjoyment of a few, to the common 

 store ; to continue, in fine, as Cdnovas would say, 

 the biological history of the human race, wearied 

 of the selfishness and injustice of three thousand 

 years of civilisation. 



But is it possible ? If it is more than a sweet, 

 flattering dream, how can it be realised ? Will the 

 man in power, duly expropriated for the common 

 good, resign himself to mediocrity ? Will not the 

 deeply rooted prejudices of a dethroned aristocracy 

 and the utilitarian instinct of the slave-driver 

 arm his enraged hand? And if these dangerous 

 longings for ill-regulated ease have to be forcibly 

 repressed, will not the society of the future be 

 threatened with new wars of class with class, with 

 the consequent ruinous waste of men and weapons, 



