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with happiness. It is on this new conception of 

 property that one bases the argument and solution 

 of the great social problem. Property thus under- 

 stood will be the keystone of the new social edifice. 



Now I know that I shall be told that this is not 

 new, that the abolition of capital has long been 

 proposed. My proposal merely tries to legitimatise 

 this aspiration, in availing myself of the law of 

 evolution, giving it greater value by endeavouring 

 to show that it is a logical consequence, and the 

 only one to which modern science leads. 



When once this conception of property is 

 admitted, my task will be very simple ; and, in 

 applying and interpreting the law of evolution 

 according to its spirit rather than its letter, I shall 

 aim at presenting to society a state of indefinite 

 perfectibility, in which man will be able to satisfy 

 his noblest and highest aspirations. It will enable 

 me at the same time to prove that war between 

 capital and labour is utterly futile; that, in the 

 antagonism between them, labour will end by 

 destroying capital, after a long sanguinary struggle, 

 and will in the result fail to attain the coveted 

 ideal, since the contest is initiated on a wrong 

 basis. The road to be followed is the broad path 

 indicated in positive science by the law of evolution, 

 since the organisation that has made man out of a 

 protist is the only one capable of rescuing present 



