opponents of socialism will be forced hence- 

 forth to recognise that, like Christianity at 

 the dissolution of the Roman world, socialism 

 forms the only power which restores the hope 

 of a better future for our old human society, 

 and this in the name of a faith no longer 

 inspired by the ignorant aspirations of senti- 

 ment, but the result of rational confidence in 

 positive science. 



manifestations of this mysticism which I shall call social 

 mysticism. We can cite the works of Tolstoi, who 

 envelopes his socialism in the doctrine of "non-resistance 

 to evil by violence " drawn from the Sermon on the 

 Mount. 



Tolstoi is thus an eloquent anti-militarist, and I am 

 pleased to see quoted in his book Salvation is within 

 you, a passage from one of my lectures against war. 



But he keeps outside contemporary positive science and 

 his work loses thus in its import. 



