ABSTRACT
The demand thus indicated will, as has been said already, be found to derive all its significance from certain propositions as to fact which are contained in it by way of implication. The content of this demand, which in all countries is the same, is plainly expressed in the latter of the two clauses which make up Mr. Webb's account of "the inevitable outcome of democracy". In all the civilised countries of the modern world, a few men, commonly called "the rich", over and above any income which they may produce by their own abilities and enterprise, appropriate a secondary income, in the production of which they have played no part whatever. The sole objective of Democracy throughout the modern world, and will, when accomplished, metamorphose the whole character of social life. The sole objective of Democracy throughout the modern world, and will, when accomplished, metamorphose the whole character of social life.
