In this Introduction we have tried to give a preliminary conception of our subject, and we shall now proceed to present the leading views of the men who have taken the chief part in originating and guiding the socialist movement.

[1] Holyoake, History of Co-operation, vol. i. p. 210, ed. 1875.
[2] Quoted by Adolf Held, Sozialismus, Sozialdemokratie und Sozialpolitik, p. 30.
[3] Ibid. p. 29.
[4] Les origines du socialisme contemporain, p. 67.
[5] Le socialisme contemporain, p. iv.
[6] Schönberg’s Handbuch der pol. Oekonomie, art. ‘Socialism.’
[7] Quintessenz des Socialismus, p. 12.
[8] Lehrbuch der pol. Oekonomie, Grundlegung, p. 174.