ABSTRACT
The doctrine of Schultze Delitsch represents the very negation of Socialism, unless the authors give the word the very vague and very general sense of the amelioration of the conditions of existence of the greater number. One readily understands how Socialism, which demands the wider and wider extension of the intervention of the State, should have found in Germany a soil excellently prepared. Its development could not have been displeasing to the government of a nation so hierarchical, so enregimented, as modern Germany. Modern Germany, ruled by the Prussian monarchy, is not the product of the slow evolution of history; its unity was effected only by force of arms, after the Prussian victories over France and Austria. Between the minds of France and of Germany there are assuredly profound differences, and yet the Socialists of the two countries arrive at identical conceptions.
