IDEAL SOCIALISM.
Sir, —It seems to an onlooker rather strango that Socialists, while strenuously engaged in their researches for matter with which to convert tho world, liavo missed tho fact that "ideal Socialism," as its most enthusiastic advocates defino it, has already undergone a thorough trial; namely, by the Israelites, from the date of tho exodus of that people from Egypt, and during tho 40 years of their wandorings in tho wilderness. It is a matter of history, how they wero prepared for tho snhlime life that was offered to them; Crushed and humiliated to the dust, they wero forced to drink to tho. dregs of the cup of bitterness. Suddenly, they found themselves tho objects of esiwcial care in, as it were, an earthly paradise. Fed and clothed without any exertion on their part, ami so disposed that they_ might abandon themselves to their own onjoyment. They failed to conform to the rides of law and order, and were for that reason responsible for their own undoing.—l am, etc.,' B. MAXWELL. May 25.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 9
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174IDEAL SOCIALISM. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 207, 26 May 1908, Page 9
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