ABSTRACT
Whatever the faults of the Fabian may be, he is, generally speaking, a humane person, and when a clear and definite issue presents itself, as it does in this case, as to whether Socialists should or should not approve of ‘speeding-up” in industry, there can be little doubt as to which way his opinion will go. It is not necessary for the author to review all the arguments by which Mr. Belloc showed that the trend of modern legislation, based upon Collectivist ideas, is towards the establishment of the Servile State. Only Servile Socialists, who are destitute alike of the sense of liberty and human dignity, will be found to deny it. The difference between the Fabian and the mystic is not that the Fabian has an eye on facts, and the mystic has not, but that the Fabian sees only the material fact while the mystic sees its spiritual significance.
