Socialism as a theory is already touching life at a hundred points, and among many peoples--Socialism has been a faith.

It is slowly becoming scientific, in a sense and to the extent that it submits its claims to the comparative tests of experience."[5] Undoubtedly Socialist theories have been spun both within and without the movement, and to many Socialism has been a faith.

But neither faith nor theory has had much to do with the great reality that is now overshadowing all others in the public mind; namely, the existence of a Socialist movement.

The Socialism of this movement has never consisted in ready-made formulas which were later subjected to "the comparative test of experience"; it has always grown out of the experience of the movement in the first instance.
Another typical article, in _Collier's Weekly_, admits that Socialism is now a movement.

But as the writer, like so many others, conceives of Socialism as having been, in its inception, a "theory," a "doctrine" promoted by "Utopian dreaming," "incendiary rhetoric," an "anti-civic jargon," he naturally views it with little real sympathy and understanding even in its present form.