ABSTRACT
The real truth about a man like Upton Sinclair, when one has worked down through to it, is that while from my point of view a class-war socialist—a man who proposes to put society together by keeping men apart—is wrong, and is sure to do a great deal of harm to some people; there are other people to whom he does a great deal of good. The trades unions and employers’ associations, extreme socialists and extreme Tories, have, so far, been very bad psychologists. If the single tax people were as good at being institutionalists or idea-salesmen as they are at being philosophers in ideas, they would long before this have turned everything their way. The one important religious value in the world is hunger, and to all the men to-day who are contributing to the process of moving on hungers; whether the hungers happen to be our hungers or not, or our stages of hunger, we say God-speed.
