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not exclusively on certain economic theories 

 and maxims, as some narrow-minded 'Social- 

 ists pure and simple' think and would fain 

 make us believe^ but on the broad foundation 

 of modern science and thought. The economic 

 theories peculiar to modern Socialism are de- 

 rived from the application of the results of the 

 achievements of modern knowledge and phi- 

 losophy to the field of social economics. The 

 trouble with the 'Socialists pure and simple' 

 IS in the extreme limitation of their mental 

 horizon. They happen to know, or rather 

 imagine they have mastered Marxian econom- 

 ics, while modern science and philosophy re- 

 mains to them a sealed letter. That is why 

 they get irritated whenever and wherever they 

 meet in the socialistic press an article con- 

 taining something else than the everlasting 

 parrot-like repetitions of pseudo-socialistic 

 commonplaces and shibboleths. Every attempt 

 to present to the attention of the readers of 

 socialistic publications, glimpses of the radi- 

 ant world of science and philosophy, leading 

 up to socialistic ideas and ideals in all their 

 world-redeeming significance, appears to the 

 simpleminded and superstitious simon-pure 

 Socialists as an attack on somebody or some- 

 thing, as a heresy and heterodoxy of some 

 kind. To such people the religion of science 



