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Chap. X - Some Difficulties Considered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2012

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“The difficulty felt about Communism, or even about any fairly complete Socialism, is that it interferes with man's freedom to make demands for his many-sided nature, and to endeavour to satisfy those demands. It secures bread to all, perhaps, but it ignores the doctrine that man shall not live by bread alone. The future probably lies with those who, instead of pitting against one another, Socialism and Individualism, will seek to realise a true, vital, organic conception of Society and of the State in which both Individualism and Socialism will have their proper share. The bark which carries civilised man with his fortunes will thus steer an even course between the Scylla of anarchy and the Charybdis of despotism.”

Daily Chronicle, 2nd July, 1894.

Having now, in a concrete rather than an abstract form, stated the objects and purposes of our scheme, it may be well to deal, though somewhat briefly, with an objection which may arise in the thought of the reader. “Your scheme may be very attractive, but it is but one of a great number, many of which have been tried and have met with but little success. How do you distinguish it from those? How, in the face of such a record of failure, do you expect to secure that large measure of public support which is necessary ere such a scheme can be put into operation?”

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To-morrow
A Peaceful Path to Real Reform
, pp. 94 - 101
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1898

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