Elaborate but unconscious admission of this fact by the writer
here quoted himself.

The power of democracy in the economic sphere, its magnitude and
its limits. The demands of the minority a counterpart of those
of the majority.

The demand of the great wealth-producer mainly a demand for
power.

Testimony of a well-known socialist to the impossibility of
altering the character of individual demand by outside
influence.


CHAPTER XI

CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SECULAR DEMOCRACY

The meaning of Christian socialism, as restated to-day by a
typical writer.

His just criticism of the fallacy underlying modern ideas of
democracy. The impossibility of equalising unequal men by
political means.

Christian socialism teaches, he says, that the abler men should
make themselves equal to ordinary men by surrendering to them
the products of their own ability, or else by abstaining from