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honors in biology, because oi Darwin, whose 

 Opportunity came through the government 

 exploration of "The Beagle,'' and Huxley, who 

 began his brilliant career with the govern- 

 ment expedition of the "Rattlesnake." As 

 England led the world in the middle of the 

 century so France had held first place during 

 its first quarter, and that because the French 

 government sent out scientific expeditions to 

 the tropics, which, on their return loaded 

 down the shelves of the "Jardin des Plantes" 

 with specimens which made possible those 

 greatest of her thinkers, Lamarck, Cuvier and 

 Geoffrey St. Hilaire. 



When the feeding of school children is 

 thrown as a charge against Socialism, we are 

 proud to plead guilty. It is our glory that 

 the only cities in the world that have no starv- 

 ing children behind school benches are those 

 cities such as Lille, Ivry, Montlucon, etc. 

 with a Socialist majority in the town coun- 

 cils, which removed the disgrace. 



Such then were the arguments of this flag 

 bearer of Individualism, who has supplied the 

 opponents of Socialism with objections these 

 thirty years. His individualist philosophy is 

 now so thoroughly discredited as to call for 

 no answer were it not for the fact pointed out 



