Moreover, the theory of all history as a search for food makes the masses content with having food and physic, but not freedom.

The best working model in the matter is the system of Compulsory Insurance; which was a total failure and dead letter in France but has been, in the German sense, a great success in Germany.

It treats employed persons as a fixed, separate, and lower caste, who must not themselves dispose of the margin of their small wages.

In 1911 it was introduced into England by Mr.Lloyd George, who had studied its operations in Germany, and, by the Prussian prestige in "social reform," was passed.
These three tendencies cohere, or are cohering, in an institution which is not without a great historical basis and not without great modern conveniences.

And as France was the standard-bearer of citizenship in 1798, Germany is the standard-bearer of this alternative solution in 1915.