nce, which will require a yearly
expenditure of _458,750,000l._, a sum four times as large as the
entire national Budget. This outlay does not deter him. Combining the
State schools with State workshops, he promises that they will yield a
profit of exactly _105,850,000l._ a year.[838] This scheme should
recommend itself to Chancellors of the Exchequer in search of a few
millions.

Another imaginative Socialist would make the abolition of all existing
languages part of his educational scheme: "Socialism will steadfastly
aim at the adoption of a universal language, be it English or volapuk.
All the modern languages--and for the matter of that, the ancient
also--are but jungles of verbiage which retard, rather than
facilitate, human thought and progress. They have grown up anyhow; but
what we now want is a made language, constructed on scientific
principles, and so easy of comprehension that any intelligent person
can acquire it in a few months."[839]

Across the educational, as most other, proposals of British Socialists
should be written in large letters, Utopia!

FOOTNOTES:

[816] See Appendix.

[817] Davidson, _Democrat's Address_, p. 5.

[818] See p. 330.

[819] Ethel Snowden, _The Woman Socialist_, pp. 39, 40.

[820] Bebel, _Woman_, p. 218.

[821] Quelch, _The Social-Democratic Federation_, p. 8.

[822] Fabian Tract, _After Bread, Education_, No. 120, p. 9.

[823] Kirtlan, _Socialism for Christians_, p. 8.

[824] _Free Feeding of School Children_, p. 23.

[825] Cox, _Socialism_, p. 16.

[826] _Local Government Board Report_, Cd. 3105, p. 495.

[827] _Ibid._ p. 506.

[828] _Times_, March 17, 1906.

[829] Cox, _Socialism_, pp. 16, 17.

[830] _Cd._ 2726, p. iii.

[831] Fabian Tract, _After Bread, Education_, No. 120, p. 14.

[832] Quelch, _Social-Democratic Federation_, p. 9.

[833] _Socialism and Trade Unionism_, p. 5.

[834] _Socialism and Trade Unionism_, p. 5.

[835] Fabian Tract, _After Bread, Education_, No. 120, p. 11.

[836] _Socialism and Trade Unionism_, p. 5.

[837] Watts, _State Maintenance for Children_, p. 4.

[838] Richardson, _How It Can Be Done_, pp. 50-61.

[839] Davidson, _The Old Order and the New_, p. 166.

CHAPTER XXIII

THE ATTITUDE OF SOCIALISTS TOWARDS PROVIDENCE, THRIFT, AND TEMPERANCE

Socialism thrives upon the poverty, unhappiness, and misery of the
workers. Starving and desperate men may easily be aroused to
rebellion. Contented men will not b