They too desire a State and a society, but different from the existing ones; they too have an ideal of justice, but it is not the one that has become traditional with us.

Under the new order of things, as they have arranged it in their minds, there should be room for every individual, every opinion, all sorts and conditions of men.

What the ruling classes say against them to-day has been said against the adherents of all new ideas since the beginning of time.

Whoever tried to make the slightest alteration in the existing order of things was always considered, by those who derived advantages therefrom, to be a foe to the State and to society in general-a robber and a revolutionist.

The early Christians enjoyed exactly the same reputation as the Socialists to-day.