ABSTRACT
A impression was also rapidly sold, and then the book was entrusted to a publishing firm for the issue of successive cheap reprints. The Fabian Society in which we were associated was already six years old; but it had still neither an office nor a salaried Secretary, nor any other income than its meagre membership could contribute from their scanty earnings as journalists and very junior Civil Servants. The renewed insistence on Equality—equality of material circumstances no less than equality before the law and equality of voting power and eligibility for office—British Socialism owes to Mr. Bernard Shaw. In 1900, when at last the Trades Union Congress was induced to set up the “ Labour Representation Committee,” which became, in 1906, the present Labour Party, the Fabian Society participated in the very first meeting ; and has ever since formed a constituent part of the organisation, sending one or more of its members to the Executive Committee.
