He sees clearly enough that wealth dominates the State; and his interpretation of history is throughout economic.

Ogilvie is one of the first of those agrarian Socialists who, chiefly through Spence and Paine, are responsible for a special current of their own in the great tide of protest against the unjust situation of labor.

Like them, he builds his system upon natural rights; though, unlike them, his natural rights are defended by expediency and in a style that is always clear and logical.

The book itself has rather a curious history.

At its appearance, it seems to have excited no notice of any kind.