ABSTRACT
Libraries full of books have been written on the delimitation of the concepts "state" and "society". Only a small fraction of social liberals, or of liberal socialists, believe in the evolution of a society without class dominion and class exploitation which shall guarantee to the individual, besides political, also economic liberty of movement, within of course the limitations of the economic means. That was the credo of the old social liberalism, of pre-Manchester days This prognosis may be substantiated in two ways, one through history and philosophy, the other by political economy, as a tendency of the development of the state, and as a tendency of the evolution of economics, both clearly tending toward one point. The tendency of the development of the state was shown in the preceding as a steady and victorious combat of economic means against political means.
