ssible to conduct a victorious
campaign with the single watchword 'Down with Socialism.' Well, I am
not fond of mere negatives. I do not like fighting an abstract noun.
My objection to Anti-Socialism as a platform is that Socialism means
so many different things. On this point I agree with Mr. Asquith. I
will wait before I denounce Socialism till I see what form it takes...
Socialism is not necessarily synonymous with robbery. Correctly used,
the word only signifies a particular view of the proper relation of
the State to its citizens, a tendency to substitute public for private
ownership, or to restrict the freedom of individual enterprise in the
interests of the public. But there are some forms of property which we
all admit should be public and not private, and the freedom of
individual enterprise is already limited by a hundred laws. Socialism
and Individualism,--I am not fond of these abstract phrases. There are
opposing principles which enter in various proportions into the
constitution of every civilized society. It is merely a question of
degree. One community is more Socialistic than another. The same
community is more Socialistic at one time than at another. This
country is far more Socialistic than it was fifty years ago, and for
most of the changes in that direction the Unionist or Tory Party is
responsible."

LORD MILNER.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. THE GOOD WILL IN MAN
II. THE FUNDAMENTAL IDEA OF SOCIALISM
III. THE FIRST MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
IV. THE SECOND MAIN GENERALIZATION OF SOCIALISM
V. THE SPIRIT OF GAIN AND THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE
VI. WOULD SOCIALISM DESTROY THE HOME?
VII. WOULD MODERN SOCIALISM ABOLISH ALL PROPERTY?
VIII. THE MIDDLE-CLASS MAN, THE BUSINESS MAN, AND SOCIALISM
IX. SOME COMMON OBJECTIONS TO SOCIALISM
X. SOCIALISM A DEVELOPING DOCTRINE
XI. REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM
XII. ADMINISTRATIVE SOCIALISM
XIII. CONSTRUCTIVE SOCIALISM
XIV. SOME ARGUMENTS _AD HOMINEM_
XV. THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM.

NEW WORLDS FOR OLD

CHAPTER I

THE GOOD WILL IN MAN

Sec. 1.

The present writer has long been deeply interested in the Socialist
movement in Great Britain and America, and in all those complicated
issues one lumps together as "social questions." In the last few years
he has gone into it personally and studied the Socialist movement
closely and intim