EPILOGUE

NOTES FOR FURTHER READING

(THE purpose of these notes is not to provide anything with claims to be regarded as an adequate bibliography, but merely to furnish suggestions for further reading. The list is therefore restricted to books which are likely to be available, or at least to be obtainable.)

General.

INDEX

ABSTINENCE, 276-7

Agriculture: Ancient Greece, 14-15, 30, 102; Ancient Rome, 33-4, 36-7; and mercantilist doctrine, 76; Montchrétien, 81; Adam Smith, 141, and industry compared; Serra, 91. See also under Physiocrats, Quesnay, Turgot

Almsgiving, 44, 50

America: discovery of silver mines in, 42, 70

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IT is a chastening thought that some parts of this book have had an ante-natal existence of approximately twenty-two years. When I began the final stage of reducing to writing an unwritten book, I had in mind the production of what should be, in size and otherwise, a companion volume to The Development of Economic Doctrine, which apparently has been found to serve a certain purpose in the education of the young economist.

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PROLOGUE AND PLAN

THE purpose of the present volume is to present the outstanding figures in the development of socialist thought, with some estimate of the significance of their several contributions. It does not, it should be observed, aim at being a history of socialist thought: such a task, in its immensity, would probably engage more than the average lifetime of any moderately conscientious student.

CHAPTER I

AT what point a history of socialism should begin is a question which might give occasion to high argument. There are some who hold that we merely becloud our judgment if we allow ourselves to speak of socialism before the middle of the eighteenth century, or perhaps even somewhat later. On this view socialism is essentially a manifestation of the proletarian spirit; or, if socialism is not necessarily proletarian in character and origin, it at least postulates a society which tends to be comprehensive in its membership.