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without bloody convulsions, but historical 

 fatality has initiated it, and it is given neither 

 to us nor to others to avoid or retard it. 



As a result of all we have just said these 

 ideas of political socialism, because they are 

 scientific, dispose to personal tolerance at the 

 same time as to theoretical disagreement. That 

 is also a conclusion of scientific psychology 

 in the philosophical domain. Whatever may 

 be our personal sympathies for such or such 

 representative of the radical fraction of the 

 individualist party (as also for every honest 

 and sincere representative of no matter what 

 scientific, religious, or political opinion) we 

 ought to recognise that there is not by the 

 side of socialism any party organically con- 

 nected with it. We must be on one side or the 

 other individualist or socialist. There is no 

 intermediate situation, and I am more and 

 more persuaded that the only useful tactic- 

 for the formation of a socialist party that will 

 live, is precisely this theoretical independence 

 and the refusal of every "alliance" with the 

 partiti affini who only constitute for socialism 

 a "false placenta" for a foetus unlikely to live. 



The conservative and the socialist are 

 natural products of individual character and 

 of social environment. One is born a con- 

 servative or an innovator, as one is born a 

 painter or surgeon. So socialists have no 

 scorn nor any malice against the sincere 

 representatives of no matter what fraction of 

 the conservative party whilst fighting to the 

 death their ideas. If such or such socialist 

 shows himself intolerant, if he is insulting, it 



