The Socialism of to-day

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Identifikator:: 835096955

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28834

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Laveleye, Émile de

Title:: The Socialism of to-day

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Field & Tuer

Year of publication:: 1884

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLIV, 331 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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EVANGELICAL SOC/A LISES. 107 course of Social Science at the universities. Theology and Political Economy are mutually connected by the closest ties.* It is only by means of Social Economy that the full scope of Christianity and its power of healing the ills of modern society can be properly appreciated. The higher dignitaries of the Evangelical Church held aloof from the movement, or indeed were hostile to it; but the common clergy were stirred by it More than seven hundred ministers sent in their adhesion to the “Central Union for Social Reform. Dr. Kögel, one of the Court preachers. Dr. Biichsel, the superintendent-general, and Dr. Bauer strongly urged the Protestant clergy to take up the Social question. Dr. Stöcker displayed wonderful courage. He attended public meetings at Berlin, where he confronted the most fanatical elements of the Socialist Demagogy, and sometimes, by sheer force of eloquence, he won cheers from the hostile crowd. He was attacked with extraordinary violence by Herr Most, one of the leaders of Berlinese Socialism, and a deputy to the Imperial Parliament. It is not easy to form any idea of the tone of these philippics, which were one long series of invec tives against Christianity and its ministers, ending with the glorification of atheism. “The Social Democracy will not recede, cried Herr Most in one of his speeches; “it will pursue its course and accomplish its designs, even though "all priestdom"(^^f«a;«;;//fV3^«/^^;;f) should rise against It, like a cloud of locusts, thick enough to darken the sun The Social Democracy knows that the days of Christianity are numbered, and that the time is not far distant when we shall say to the priests, ‘Settle your account with Heaven for your hour IS come.'" Inasmuch as Herr Stöcker and his friends were making an appeal to religious sentiments, and were endeavouring to show that it was in the principles and senti- would be found. Deputy Most organized an agitation for the

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