Amen.' And who can look twice at the British Parliament and then seriously bring it such a task?
I am not advancing this as an argument against Socialism: once again, nothing is further from my mind.

There are great truths in Socialism, or no one, not even Mr.Hyndman, would be found to hold it; and if it came, and did one-tenth part of what it offers, I for one should make it welcome.

But if it is to come, we may as well have some notion of what it will be like; and the first thing to grasp is that our new polity will be designed and administered (to put it courteously) with something short of inspiration.
It will be made, or will grow, in a human parliament; and the one thing that will not very hugely change is human nature.

The Anarchists think otherwise, from which it is only plain that they have not carried to the study of history the lamp of human sympathy.
Given, then, our new polity, with its new waggon-load of laws, what headmarks must we look for in the life?
We chafe a good deal at that excellent thing, the income-tax, because it brings into our affairs the prying fingers, and exposes us to the tart words, of the official.

The official, in all degrees, is already something of a terror to many of us.
I would not willingly have to do with even a police-constable in any other spirit than that of kindness.