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not socialism which develops atheism any 

 more than it is socialism which will establish 

 the republic. Atheism is a product of the 

 theories of Darwin and Spencer in the present 

 bourgeois civilisation, and the republic has 

 been, and will be, in different countries the 

 work of a part of the capitalist bourgeoisie, 

 as was recently written in some conservative 

 newspapers of Milan, when it was said, " the 

 monarchy will no longer serve the interests 

 of the country " that is to say, of the class 

 in power. 



The evolution from absolute monarchy to 

 constitutional monarchy and to republicanism, 

 is an evident historical law; in the civilisation 

 of to-day the only difference is in the elective 

 or the hereditary character of the head of 

 the State. In the different European countries 

 the bourgeoisie itself will demand this passage 

 from the monarchy to the republic in order to 

 delay as long as possible the triumph of social- 

 ism. In Italy, as in France, in England as in 

 Spain, one sees only too many republicans 

 or radicals whose attitude towards social 

 questions is more bourgeois and conservative 

 than that of intelligent conservatives. At 

 Montecitorio, for example, M. R. Imbriani, 

 has in religious and social matters more 

 conservative opinions than M. di Rudini, M. 

 Imbriani, whose personality is moreover very 

 sympathetic, has never attacked a priest or a 

 monk he who attacks the whole universe, 

 and very ofteji rightly, though without much 

 success, in consequence of an error in his 



