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CHAPTER  VIL

evangelical  socialists.
party  of  Monarchical  Christian  Socialists  is  of  recen
X  date.  It  was  formed  by  the  energetic  action  of  th(
leader  of  the  anti-Semitic  movement,  Herr  Stöcker,  one  of  the
court  preachers,  and  a  clergyman  of  the  conservative  anc
orthe^ox  type.  It  seems  clearly  to  have  been  the  example  o
the  Catholic  clergy  that  led  the  Protestant  ministers  in  thi<
direction.*  They,  too,  wished,  on  their  side,  to  acquirt
influence  over  the  labouring  classes,  by  concerning  themselves
with  their  grievances  and  making  themselves  the  mouthpiece
of  some  of  their  ideas.  The  main  difference  was  that,  while
the  Catholic  clergy  acted  with  a  view  to  opposition  and  tc
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