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inequality both by devouring a large portion of the produce 
which might go to improve the lot of the labourers, and by 
enabling an increasing number of independent persons to live 
on the interest of loans necessitated by wars and armaments. 
In the second place, forced service draws into the large towns, 
always more or less active centres of socialistic ideas, all the 
pung men from the country districts, and through them these 
Ideas penetrate into the hamlets where lately the feelings and 
beliefs of the past were preserved intact I do not believe 
that, up to the present, the majority of soldiers have anywhere 
been gained over to Socialism ; far from it ; but evidently here 
les the great danger for the existing order of things, which 
depends, after all, upon the support of bayonets. If this last 
rampart were carried, frightful convulsions would inevitably 
ensue. ^ 
Let us now endeavour to separate what is true in Socialism 
trom what is false. 
The foundation of all socialistic claims is the assertion that 
present social system is to increase inequality, 
Jï labourers becoming daily worse, while the 
a ote capitalists and landowners is always augmenting. 
•.ble Ibafe™.'".™'’' '' '*■ ™ doubt, incontest- 
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