Even J.J.

Rousseau--confounding communism and equality--has said somewhere that, without slavery, he did not think equality of conditions possible.

The communities of the early Church did not last the first century out, and soon degenerated into monasteries.

In those of the Jesuits of Paraguay, the condition of the blacks is said by all travellers to be as miserable as that of slaves; and it is a fact that the good Fathers were obliged to surround themselves with ditches and walls to prevent their new converts from escaping.

The followers of Baboeuf--guided by a lofty horror of property rather than by any definite belief--were ruined by exaggeration of their principles; the St.Simonians, lumping communism and inequality, passed away like a masquerade.