CONTENTS. 
Translator’s Preface (ix.) 
INTRODUCTION. 
THE PROGRESS OF SOCIALISM. 
Ubiquity of Socialism (xiii.)—What is Socialism? (xiv.)—Causes of the 
origin and growth of Socialism (xv.)—Christianity and Socialism (xvi.) 
—Socialistic utterances of the Fathers of the Church (xviii.)—Darwin 
ism the logical antithesis of both Christianity and Socialism (xix.) 
How religious Socialism became political (xx.)—The French Revolution 
and social equality (xxi.)—Changes in the methods of production (xxii.) 
—Mediaeval craftsmen and modern factory-hands (xxv.)—Mediaeval 
society stationary but stable (xxvii.)—Competition the cause at once of 
progress and instability (xxviii.)—“ The iron law of wages ” (xxix.)— 
Internationalism (xxx.)—Summary of the situation created by economic 
progress (xxxi.)—Macaulay’s prophecy (xxxii.)—Effect of the decay of 
religious faith (xxxiii.)—Political Economy, the arsenal of Socialism 
(xxxiv. ) Socialism gaining ground with the upper classes (xxxv.)—and 
promoted by Militarism (xxxvi. )—The true and the false in Socialism 
(xxxvii.)—The demands of Socialism (xxxix.)—Effect of Socialism on 
Political Economy (xlii. )—Fundamental errors of Socialists (xliii.) 
CHAPTER I. 
CONTEMPORARY SOCIALISM IN GERMANY. 
Coercive measures against Socialists (i)—Two Socialistic Associations 
formed in Germany (2)—The Congress of Gotha, 1872, and its pro 
gramme (3)—Wide diffusion of Socialism in Germany (4).