st idea, but equally innate in that is the
conception of establishing and maintaining for ever a universal peace.

CHAPTER XV

THE ADVANCEMENT OF SOCIALISM

Sec. 1.

And here my brief exposition of the ideals of Modern Socialism may
fitly end.

I have done my best to set out soberly and plainly this great idea of
deliberately making a real civilization by the control and
subordination of the instinct of property, and the systematic
development of a state of consciousness out of the achievements and
squalor, out of the fine forces and wasted opportunities of to-day. I
may have an unconscious bias perhaps, but so far as I have been able I
have been just and frank, concealing nothing of the doubts and
difficulties of Socialism, nothing of the divergencies of opinion
among its supporters, nothing of the generous demands it makes upon
the social conscience, the Good Will in man. Its supporters are
divergent upon a hundred points, but upon its fundamental
generalizations they are all absolutely agreed, and some day the whole
world will be agreed. Their common purport is the resumption by the
community of all property that is not justly and obviously personal,
and the substitution of the spirit of service for the spirit of gain
in all human affairs.

It must be clear to the reader who has followed my explanations
continuously, that the present advancement of Socialism must lie now
along three several lines.

FIRST, and most important, is the primary intellectual
process, the elaboration, criticism, discussion, enrichment
and enlargement of the project of Socialism. This includes all
sorts of sociological and economic research, the critical
literature of Socialism, and every possible way--the drama,
poetry, painting, music--of expressing and refining its
spirit, its attitudes and conceptions. It includes, too, all
sorts of experiments in living and association. In its widest
sense it includes all science, literature and invention.

SECONDLY, comes the propaganda; the publication, distribution,
repetition, discussion and explanation of this growing body of
ideas, until this conception of a real civilized State as
being in the making, becomes the common intellectual property
of all intelligent people in the world; until the laws and
social injustices that now seem, to the ordinary man, as much
parts of life as the east wind and influenza, will see