ABSTRACT
We have been dealing, so far, entirely with Guild Socialism as a scheme of industrial and economic organisation, and have not, except incidentally, touched upon its application to services of a non-economic character. But it must be obvious that the arguments which have been advanced in favour of self-government in industry apply at least equally to those services whose purpose is, not the satisfaction of economic wants, but the fulfilment of spiritual, mental, and other non-economic needs and desires. The necessity of evoking, in these essentially civic services, the spirit of free communal devotion is at least as great, and the opportunity is, by reason of their character, greater and more easily seized than in the case of most economic activities. If there is anywhere a real chance for free organisation conceived in the spirit of public service, it is surely in such spheres as education and health, in which there is, even under their present depressing conditions, considerable scope for idealistic motives and devoted endeavour.
