For him the whole body of our industrialism is rotten with selfishness and covetousness, the high note of service entirely absent from it, the one energy which informs it the energy of aggressive self-seeking.

Such a system cannot be patched.

It is anti-Christian.

It should be smashed.
He plunges into economics with a good deal of vigour, but I do not think he has thought out to its logical conclusion his thesis of guild socialism.

Perhaps his tone is here more vehement than his knowledge of a notoriously difficult science altogether justifies.
He opposes himself to the evolutionary philosophy of the nineteenth century, and is ready to defend the idea of a Fall of Man.