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an undue share. They work for all mankind 

 and for all time, and all they ask is that all 

 mankind shall forever benefit by their work." 



And so Ward's conclusion is that the great- 

 ness of the present consists in that mass of 

 achievements called civilization, among which 

 are those inventions which have so wonder- 

 fully increased the capacity of social labor in 

 its production of wealth. And the hope of the 

 future lies in the socialization of those achieve- 

 ments so as to make their rich fruits the com- 

 mon heritage of all mankind. There are no 

 Socialists who will quarrel with these conclu- 

 sions. 



We will now briefly compare this position 

 with that of the great German thinker, Joseph 

 Dietzgen, who at the international congress 

 at The Hague, in 1872, was introduced by 

 Karl Marx to the assembled delegates with 

 these words: "Here is our philosopher/' Of 

 course we shall only deal with his theories 

 here as they relate to the conclusions reached 

 by Ward. 



"All exertion and struggle in human his- 

 tory" says Dietzgen, "all aspirations and re- 

 searches of science find their common aim in 

 the freedom of man, in the subjection of na- 

 ture to the sway of his mind." 



This is, as we have seen, precisely Ward's 



