The experience of civilized nations has hitherto been adverse to Socialism.

The effort is too great for human nature; men try to live in common, but the personal feeling is always breaking in.

On the other hand it may be doubted whether our present notions of property are not conventional, for they differ in different countries and in different states of society.

We boast of an individualism which is not freedom, but rather an artificial result of the industrial state of modern Europe.

The individual is nominally free, but he is also powerless in a world bound hand and foot in the chains of economic necessity.