Cobden's Praise of the Prussian Government for its Social Work, 393--Property, a Requisite of Progress, not of Freedom, 394--Limits of Legitimate Intervention, 395--Short Definition of State Socialism, 399--Error of Plea for State Socialism as Extinguisher of Chance, 399--As Saving the Waste from Competition, 400--Wastefulness of Socialism, 401--As shown in Samoa, 401--In England under Old Poor Law, 402--In Brook Farm, 402--Idleness the Destroyer of the American Owenite and Fourierist Communities, 403--Idleness, the Great Difficulty in the Shaker and Rappist Communities, 405--"Old Slug," 406--Contentment with Squalid Conditions, 407--Special Liability to Mismanagement, 408. _4. State Socialism and State Management._ Natural Qualities and Defects of State as Industrial Manager, 409--Post Office, 410--Dockyards, 410--Forestry, 412--Mint and other Forms of Attesting, 412--Monopolies, 413--Municipal Management of Gas and Water Supply, 413--Land Nationalization, 414--State Railways, 415--State Insurance in New Zealand, 417--Results of Joint-Stock Management and Private Management in Massachusetts, 417. _5. State Socialism and Popular Right._ Why Impracticable Legislation is Socialistic, 418--Rule of Intervention for Realizing Rights, 419--Right to Existence, 421--Right to Superannuation, 421--Right to Labour, 423--Problem of the Unemployed, 425--Free Education, Libraries, Parks, 427--Where Stop? 427--Legal Fixing of Prices, as in Fares and Rates, 428--Of Fair Rent, 429--Of Fair Wages, 430--Compulsory Arbitration, 430--Legal Minimum Wages, 431--Sweating System and Starvation Wages, 432--International Compulsory Eight Hours Day, 434. CHAPTER XII. THE AGRARIAN SOCIALISM OF HENRY GEORGE.