ABSTRACT
It is literally true that to-day “The Community “has become an object of almost religious worship, and that Church and State combine to condemn any and every suggestion of change. It is intelligible that those who would lose by such change should resist it: it is harder to understand why those who might gain should continue to support a form of coexistence which obviously fails to secure them even the most elementary decencies and comforts. They are however influenced by the experiences of their childhood, in which they have been taught to believe in the moral necessity of punishment, the duty of disciplined obedience to authority, and the sanctity of law: they are thus the more ready to reject any theory which may bring them into personal contact with the system of fines and imprisonments by which the present form of community is maintained. The cry that the State is in danger is enough by itself to stampede group B in any direction desired by A.
