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or destroy even those public liberties which 

 were without danger when they were in the 

 hands of workmen not formed into a class 

 party, but at the tail of other purely political 

 parties which are as radical in secondary 

 questions as they are profoundly conservative 

 on the fundamental question of the economic 

 organisation of property. 



The class struggle is, therefore, a struggle 

 of class against class, and a struggle, of course, 

 by the methods of which I shall shortly speak 

 when dealing with the four modes of social 

 transformation : evolution revolution re- 

 volt personal violence. But it is a struggle 

 of class in the Darwinian sense which renews 

 in the history of man the grand drama of the 

 struggle for life among the species instead of 

 debasing ourselves to the savage and insig- 

 nificant fight of one individual with another. 



We can stop here. The examination of the 

 relations between Darwinism and socialism 

 might lead us much farther, but it would 

 always eliminate the supposed contradiction 

 there is between the two currents of modern, 

 scientific thought, and it would affirm on the 

 contrary the intimate, natural and indissoluble 

 agreement there is between the two. 



It is thus that the penetrating eye of 

 Virchow found a confirmation in Leopold 

 Jacoby. 



"The same year when Darwin's book 

 appeared (1859), and setting out from /juite 

 a different direction, an identical impulse 

 was given to~ a very important development 

 of social science by a work which passed 



