You see, human nature remains the same, and its organization alters only very gradually, almost imperceptibly, though it sometimes changes its name.

Christianity promised to be the beginning of the thousand years' reign, but in the main, everything has gone on just as it was before.

A Socialist State would not be able to make the sun rise in the west, or do away with death any more than we can.

They would have ministers, custom-house officers, policemen, virtue, vice and ambition, self-interest, oppression and brotherly love just as we do, and if the Socialists come into power, they will soon pass special acts and prosecute the followers of other opinions just as they are being prosecuted to-day.

That is all upon the surface, and does not touch the root of things.