I 3 6 



old Europe, as at the end of the i8th century 

 the signal of the political and bourgeois 

 revolution started from France. 



However that may be, we have shown once 

 more the great difference there is between 

 socialism and anarchy, which our opponents 

 and the servile press endeavour to confuse/* 

 and in every case I have shown that Marxian 

 socialism is in accord with positive" science, 

 and continues it. That is just the reason why 

 it has made the theory of evolution the basis 

 of its inductions, and that it thus stamps the 

 really living and definitive phase con- 

 sequently the only one in the intelligence of 

 collective democracy of this socialism which 

 has remained till now floating in the clouds 

 of sentiment, and which the infallible compass 

 of scientific thought renewed by the works of 

 Darwin and Spencer, has come to guide. 



* I ought to recognise that one of the recent historians 

 of socialism, M. Pabbe" Winterer more loyal than many 

 a Jesuit in a frock coat distinguishes always for every 

 country the socialist movement and the anarchist move- 

 ment. Winterer, Le Socialisme Contemporain, Paris, 

 1894, 2nd edition. 



