This is the faculty of invention.

Here, at last, we seem to be listening to the language of sober sense.

But let us see what follows.

Inventors, our author proceeds, being the types of exceptional ability which is really beneficent and productive, are precisely the men who afford us our surest grounds for believing in the possibility of that moral conversion which socialism proposes to effect among able men at large.

For what, he says, as a fact do we find the inventors doing?
They invent, he says, for the pure love of inventing, or else from a desire to do good to their fellow creatures.