VI CONTENTS. fluence of the Ultramontane Socialists (133)—The Catholic working men’s clubs (134)—Kolping’s Vereine (137)—Assembly of German Catholics at Mayence, 1871 (139)—Relations of the Catholic Socialists with the Social Democrats (140)—Associations due to Catholic Socialism (141)—Double object of the movement (143)—The scarlet-coloured beast of the Apocalypse (144). CHAPTER IX. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. Facts which gave rise to the International (146)—Communist Manifesto of 1847 (148)—Visit of French working men to the London Exhibition of 1862 (149)—Foundation of the International, 1864 (150)—Its Manifesto (151)—First Congress at Geneva, 1866(153)—Constitution of the International (154)—The International begins to make its power felt (155)—Congress at Lausanne, 1867 (156)—Congress at Brussels, 1868 (158)—Collectivism (161)—What is the Collectivity ? (164)—The Slavic zadruga (165)—How the International gained adherents (166) —Congress at Bâle, 1869 (168)—Autonomous Co-operative Associations (170)—Abolition of hereditary succession (171)—Bakunin appears on the scene (172)—Spread of the International in 1870 (173)—Protests against the Franco-Prussian war (174)—The International and the Paris Commune (176)—Conference in London, 1871 (179)—The schism in the International and the Congress at the Hague, 1872 (180)—Two Internationals face to face, 1873 (182)—General Assembly of the Autonomists at Brussels, 1874 (184)—Congress at Berne, 1876 (185)— Congress at Ghent, 1877 (187)—Causes of the decline of the Inter national (189). CHAPTER X. BAKUNIN THE APOSTLE OF NIHILISM. Amorphism (192)—Cosmical and social Palingenesis (193)—Biographical sketch of Bakunin (196)—Foundation of “ the Alliance of the Socialist Democracy” (198)—Bakunin and the Commune {199)—Constitution of the Alliance (200)—Its programme (201)—“ Holy and wholesome ignorance” (203) — “Pan-destruction” (204)—The Revolutionary Catechism (205)—Netchaieff (206)—The assassination of Ivanoff (207) —Romatioff, Pugatcheff, or Pestel? (208)—Influence of the International in England (209)—in America (212)—in the Scandinavian countries (213)—in Switzerland (216)—in Belgium (218)—in Holland (220)—in Austria (220)—in Hungary (221)—in Italy (221)—“The Social Revo lution ” at San Lupo (222)—Lady Internationalists (224)—Mazzini and