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been proved that the first objection of anti- 

 socialistic reasoning is not valid because its 

 premise is non-existent ; it supposes, in fact, 

 that contemporary socialism lays claim to a 

 chimerical, physical, and moral equality 

 among all men, when scientific and positive 

 socialism has never thought never even 

 dreamed of it. 



Socialism maintains, on the contrary, that 

 this inequality very much diminished in a 

 better social organisation which will do'away 

 with all the physical and moral imperfections 

 which misery accumulates from generation to 

 generation will never, however, be able to 

 disappear, for the reasons Darwinism has 

 discovered in the mysterious mechanism of life, 

 in the infinite succession of men and species. 



In every social organisation, in whatsoever 

 fashion one conceives it, there will always be 

 some men tall and others short, feeble and 

 strong, sanguine and nervous, more and less 

 intelligent, some superior in intelligence, 

 others in muscular force ; and it is well that 

 it should be so anyhow, it is inevitable. 



It is well, because the variety and inequality 

 of individual aptitudes produce naturally the 

 division of work which Darwinism has rightly 

 declared to be a law of individual physiology 

 and of social econony. 



All men ought to work to live, but each 

 ought to give himself up to the work which 

 best corresponds to his ability. We should 

 thus avoid a hurtful waste of power, and work 

 would cease from being repugnant and become 



