288 THE GOSPEL, AND THE SOCIAL CKEED OF SCIENCE. 



social fabric, are surely symptoms of some deep-rooted 

 disease, of something seriously wrong in our present 

 social system, which is well worthy the attentive con- 

 sideration of statesmen as well as of thinkers ; and some- 

 thing for the cure of which neither more stringent 

 repression nor aggressive foreign wars, the favourite 

 treatment hitherto adopted, will suffice in future. The 

 root cause of the socialist movement is in reality the 

 poverty of the many in our modern rich communities, 

 joined to a rankling sense of injustice, neither of which, 

 difficult as they may be and are of cure, are to be 

 removed by internal repression or foreign aggression; 

 but, if by anything, by internal reform in institutions, 

 and by the removal of social injustices which still every- 

 where exist, notwithstanding the reforming spirit that 

 has been active for a long time in their partial remoyal. 

 For justice may be reached on the Earth, even though 

 fraternity and social equality be only possible in the 

 Happy Republic of the philosophers. 



