This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...said Winter. "And you must confess that up to this time stability has not been your most striking characteristic." "I have laid no claim to it," said Egerton. "I have thought more of finding truth--if truth were to be found--than of preserving a character for consistency; which, after all, often simply means that a man ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...said Winter. "And you must confess that up to this time stability has not been your most striking characteristic." "I have laid no claim to it," said Egerton. "I have thought more of finding truth--if truth were to be found--than of preserving a character for consistency; which, after all, often simply means that a man is not accessible to new ideas." "If you have been in search of truth I retract all my criticisms," said Winter, "for my opinion has been that you were simply in search of novelty. Eh bien, you have discovered what you sought, then, in the principles of Socialism as expounded by Duchesne?" "By no means," Egerton answered. "Principles which would reconstruct the world on a basis of communal tyranny are not to my fancy. That part of Socialism which dwells upon the wrongs and the miseries of the poor is true; but when it comes to a question of remedies it is impossible to follow men who, if they had the power, would proclaim to-morrow a crusade of wholesale robbery." "Who by one violent revolution would set right the wrongs of centuries and demolish social conditions which nothing short of revolution can overturn," said Winter. "It is natural that you do not welcome such a prospect, since you are one of the class to be dispossessed; but it proves that I was right in believing that you were only amusing yourself with Socialism, as with other things." Now, Egerton was amiable almost to a fault, but the scarcely veiled contempt of the other's tone was too much even for his amiability. He looked up with a spark of fire in his glance as he said: "You are entirely mistaken. I have not been amusing myself with Socialism. It is rather a grim subject for amusem...
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