a class necessitates. All this we have to teach people, when we have
taught ourselves; and I admit that the work is long and burdensome;
as I began by saying, people have been made so timorous of change by
the terror of starvation that even the unluckiest of them are stolid
and hard to move. Hard as the work is, however, its reward is not
doubtful. The mere fact that a body of men, however small, are
banded together as Socialist missionaries shows that the change is
going on. As the working-classes, the real organic part of society,
take in these ideas, hope will arise in them, and they will claim
changes in society, many of which doubtless will not tend directly
towards their emancipation, because they will be claimed without due
knowledge of the one thing necessary to claim, EQUALITY OF CONDITION;
but which indirectly will help to break up our rotten sham society,
while that claim for equality of condition will be made constantly
and with growing loudness till it MUST be listened to, and then at
last it will only be a step over the border and the civilized world
will be socialized; and, looking back on what has been, we shall be
astonished to think of how long we submitted to live as we live now.



WHIGS, DEMOCRATS, AND SOCIALISTS. {2}



What is the state of parties in England to-day? How shall we
enumerate them? The Whigs, who stand first on the list in my title,
are considered generally to be the survival of an old historical
party once looked on as having democratic tendencies, but now the
hope of all who would stand soberly on the ancient ways. Besides