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thus defined, is the logical outcome of that form 

 of political theory, which for the last half-century 

 and more has been known under the name of 

 Individualism. 1 



I have, unfortunately, no such long established 

 prescription to offer for the term Regimentation ; 

 but I hope it will be accepted until some one 

 discovers a better denomination for the opposite 

 view, the essence of which is the doctrine of State 

 omnipotence. " Socialism," which at first suggests 

 itself, is unfortunately susceptible of being used in 

 widely different senses. As a general rule, no 

 doubt, socialistic political philosophy is eminently 

 regimental. But there is no necessary connection 

 between socialism and regimentation. Persons, 

 who, of their own free will, should think fit to 

 imitate the primitive Christians depicted by the 

 Acts, and to have all things in common, would be 

 Socialists ; and yet they might be none the less 

 Individualists, so long as they refused to compel 

 any one to join them. The only true contradictory 

 of Individualism is that more common kind of 



common coercive power." Hobbes, Philosophical Elements, 

 chap. vi. 13, note. 



1 It is employed as an already familiar appellative by Louis 

 Blanc in the first volume of his Histoirc dc la Rirolulin'n 

 Franqaise, published in 1847, which contains a very interesting 

 attempt to trace the influence of the principles of authority, of 

 individualism, and of fraternity, through French history. The 

 first volume of the elaborate work of Mario (Winkelblech), 

 Organization der Arbeit, published in 1850, gives a very complete 

 exposition of the theory of Individualism under the name of 

 Liberalismiis, 



