il which chiefly moves
us, and by our success or our failure in helping on the reconstruction
of society for the purpose of abolishing poverty, the work of the Fabian
Society must ultimately be judged.

FOOTNOTES:

[43] "La Societe Fabienne et le Mouvement socialiste anglais
contemporain." By Edouard Pfeiffer, Paris, F. Giard and E. Briere, 1911;
an excellent volume but full of errors.

[44] "The Fabians were the first amongst Socialists to start the
movement of anti-Marxist criticism. At a period when the dogmas of the
Master were regarded as sacred, the Fabians ventured to assert that it
was possible to call oneself a Socialist without ever having read 'Das
Kapital,' or without accepting its doctrine. In opposition to Marx, they
have revived the spirit of J.S. Mill, and they have attacked Marx all
along the line--the class war, the economic interpretation of history,
the catastrophic method, and above all the theory of value."

[45] Published in English by the Independent Labour Party in 1909 as
"Evolutionary Socialism."

[46] Address to the International, 1862, quoted from Spargo's "Karl
Marx," p. 266.

[47] Home University Library, Williams and Norgate, 1915, 1s.

[48] M. Beer, "Geschichte des Socialismus in England" (Stuttgart, 1913),
p. 462. Mr. Beer devotes seven pages to the Society, which he describes
with accuracy, and interprets much as Mr. Barker has done. The book was
written at the request of the German Social Democratic Party.

[49] I quote, but do not endorse the opinion that G.B.S. markedly
resembles James Mill (Mr. Barker confuses the two Mills). Beer adds
"Webb was the thinker, Shaw the fighter." This antithesis is scarcely
happy. The collaboration of the two is much too complicated to be summed
up in a phrase.

[50] But see chapter VIII for its influence before 1906; and see
Appendix 1. A. for a much fuller discussion of this subject.

[51] The same idea is expressed by a Canadian Professor:--

"It is necessary to go back to the Philosophical Radicals to find a
small group of men who have exercised such a profound influence over
English political thought as the little band of social investigators who
organised the Fabian Society."

"Socialism: a critical analysis." By O.D. Skelton, Ph.D., Professor of
Economic Science, Kingston, Canada. (Constable, 1911.) p. 288.

[52] Mr. Barker erroneously uses the word "increment" for "income" in
several places. Unearned increment is quite another