of the social edifice will appear to many a reader, they go in reality no further than those suggested by Plato, Sir Thomas More, Robert Owen, and Stuart Mill; and he hopes that the system of social regeneration propounded in this work will be regarded with due allowance for its origin, as being an almost literal reproduction of the communistic ideas entertained by many great writers on the social problem, and which the author has endeavoured to combine and to arrange into a systematic whole. The author withholds his name in deference to the wellknow tenet of French Democracy, "Les hommes ne sont rien, les principes sont tout,"-"Men are nothing, principles are everything." No name can sanctify principles. Truth is their only touchstone, advocate, and disseminator. LONDON, March, 1876. BOOKS FROM WHICH THE AUTHOR HAS MADE FREQUENT EXTRACTS FOR THE COMPILATION OF THIS WORK. EVERY passage extracted is marked with quotation marks (" ") and is always accompanied with its author's name. The adoption of this mode of citation has obviated the frequent numerical indications of pages. 1. "Plato's Republic." Translated by Henry Davis. London, 1872. 2. "Utopia; or, The best State of a Commonwealth." By Sir Thomas More; translated from the Latin by Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Sarum. 3. Buonarotti's "History of the Conspiracy of Babeuf.” Translated by Bronterre O'Brien. 4. "Voyage en Icarie: Roman Philosophique et Social." By M. Cabet. Paris, 1842. 5. "Das Kapital." By Karl Marx. Hamburg, 1873. 6. "Social Innovators and their Schemes." By W. L. Sargant. London, 1858. 7. "Robert Owen and his Social Philosophy." By the same. London, 1860. 8. "Robert Owen, the Founder of Socialism in England." By A. J. Booth. London, 1869. 9. "Saint Simon and Saint Simonism: a Chapter of the History of Socialism in France." By A. J. Booth. London, 1871. 10. "Utilitarianism." By John Stuart Mill. London, 1874. 11. "The Subjection of Women." By John Stuart Mill. London, 1870. 12. "On Liberty." By John Stuart Mill. London, 1873. 13. "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." By James Fitzjames Stephen. London, 1874. 14. "The Laws of Work." By John Ruskin. London, 1867. 15. "A Manual of Manners and Morals. By T. L. Nichols. London, 1873. 16. "Science and Commerce." By P. L. Simmonds. London, 1872. 17. "Etymonia." By the Scamping Carpenter. London, 1875. 18. "Hygeia, the Model City of Health." A Paper read by Dr. Richardson at the Social Science Congress of 1875. 19. "L'Organisation du Travail." By Louis Blanc. Paris, 1848. 20. "The Abolition of the State." By Dr. S. Engländer. London, 1873. 21. "The Works of Benjamin Franklin." By Sparks. Boston, U.S., 1840. |