CHAPTER II 



Socialists, 

 though often 

 forgetting the 

 necessity of 

 exceptional 

 motive, often 

 remember it, 



and endeavour 

 to show that 

 socialistic 

 society would 

 have sufficient 

 rewards to 

 offer to its 

 great men, 



THE MOTIVES OF THE EXCEPTIONAL WEALTH- 

 PRODUCER 



IN spite of their frequent forgetfulness of the 

 fact just insisted on, that the development and 

 exercise of exceptional faculties can be secured 

 only through the influence of some exceptional 

 motive, this is not a fact which socialists theoretically 

 deny. On the contrary, often as they forget it, with 

 curious consequences to their reasoning, yet just as 

 often, when they happen to be directly confronted 

 with it, they are loud in declaring that they recognise 

 it quite as clearly as their opponents ; and a consider- 

 able portion of their more modern writings consists 

 of a setting forth of the various exceptional rewards 

 which will, according to them, in the socialistic State, 

 elicit from exceptional men the exercise of their 

 utmost powers. Moreover, the rewards on which 

 the socialists principally insist are rewards, the desire 

 of which is admitted by all parties to be an actual 

 force in society as at present constituted, and in fact 

 to have been, ever since the dawn of history, the 

 motive to which much activity of the highest kind 



