ABSTRACT
There are two ways of analysing the structure of society. People may begin with the nature of man and reason to his environment, or they may reverse the process. The former is the method of the Guildsman, the latter of the Collectivist. But just as the Collectivist, reasoning from environment, must come, in the end, to definite conclusions about the nature of man, so the Guildsman will finally have something to say about property, and, as may be expected, he will come to different conclusions. Any attempt to give practical application to such a principle would, at the present time, lead to greater evils than those from which people now suffer ; for in practical affairs they must reckon with men as they are, and with the problem as it exists, both in regard to the evils to be eradicated and the forces at our disposal for the purpose of reform.
