[45] Published in English by the Independent Labour Party in 1909 as "Evolutionary Socialism."
[46] Address to the International, 1862, quoted from Spargo's "Karl Marx," p. 266.
[47] Home University Library, Williams and Norgate, 1915, 1s.
[48] M. Beer, "Geschichte des Socialismus in England" (Stuttgart, 1913), p. 462. Mr. Beer devotes seven pages to the Society, which he describes with accuracy, and interprets much as Mr. Barker has done. The book was written at the request of the German Social Democratic Party.
[49] I quote, but do not endorse the opinion that G.B.S. markedly resembles James Mill (Mr. Barker confuses the two Mills). Beer adds "Webb was the thinker, Shaw the fighter." This antithesis is scarcely happy. The collaboration of the two is much too complicated to be summed up in a phrase.
[50] But see chapter VIII for its influence before 1906; and see Appendix I. A. for a much fuller discussion of this subject.
[51] The same idea is expressed by a Canadian Professor:—
"It is necessary to go back to the Philosophical Radicals to find a small group of men who have exercised such a profound influence over English political thought as the little band of social investigators who organised the Fabian Society."
"Socialism: a critical analysis." By O.D. Skelton, Ph.D., Professor of Economic Science, Kingston, Canada. (Constable, 1911.) p. 288.
[52] Mr. Barker erroneously uses the word "increment" for "income" in several places. Unearned increment is quite another thing.