58 DARWINISM AND POLITICS. 



precious in individualism must be retained along 

 with the stability of social conditions which in- 

 dividualism has destroyed. And this new stage 

 can be best described by the word " Social- 



ism. 



S. APPLICATIONS. 



By way of practical application, let us use 

 the light gained in our study of the nature of 

 social evolution generally to consider in detail 

 three great parts of the social problem: (i)> 

 State interference with the condition of labour, 

 (2) the position of women, (3) the population 

 question, which is obviously connected with 

 both the preceding. 



(1) Strauss, to whom I have referred before 

 as professedly applying the new faith of Evolu- 

 tion to the practical guidance of life, objects 

 even to trade-unions a^itatin^ for a reduction 

 of the hours of labour. 1 He is so hot upon 

 the point that his patriotism, which elsewhere 

 seems to constitute the principal part of his 

 morality, deserts him here, and he suggests that 



1 The Old Faith and the New, sec. S$ in German edit. 

 1875 =sec. 79 (ii. p. 98) in Eng. Transl. 



