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Socialism:
Positive and Negative

BY

ROBERT RIVES LA MONTE

"I will make a man more precious than fine gold;
even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir."
Isaiah xiii, 12.

CHICAGO
CHARLES H. KERR & COMPANY
1907