Mr. George Predicts that his Book would find Apostles, 441--Fulfilment of the Prediction, 441--Sisyphism, 442--Loses His Religious Belief through Perception of Poverty, 443--Recovers it again, 445--1st, His Problem, 445--Its unverified Assumption, 445--Evidence of Facts against it, 448--Average Scale of Living has Risen, 449--Proportion of Paupers, unable to obtain it, has Declined, 449--Special Decline of Able-bodied Pauperism, 450--Increase of Length of Life, 452--Mr. George Changes his Problem from one of Quantity to one of Proportion, 453--Rent really no larger Proportion of National Wealth or even of Agricultural Produce than before, 454--Wages no Smaller Proportion, 456--Indications of Increasing Distribution of Wealth, 457--2nd, Mr. George's Explanation, 461--Alleged Tendency of Wages to a Minimum that gives but a Bare Living, 462--The Wages Fund and Population Theories, 464--Mr. George's New Population Theory, 465--His New Wages Fund Theory, 468--His Explanation of the Distribution of Wealth without taking Profits into Account, 474--Views on Rent, 476--on Interest, 483--Wages, 484--Margin of Cultivation, 484--Absurdities of his Explanation, 485--3rd, Mr. George's Remedy, 487--Land Nationalization Movement in England, 488--Futility of Mr. George's Remedy, 489--Confiscation, 490--Difference of Mr. George's Proposal from Mr. Mill's, 491--Agricultural Land as truly the Fruit of Labour as other Commodities, 492--Real Distinction between Land and other Property, 494--Social Claim on all Property, 495--Is Private Property the best Guarantee for the most Productive use of Land? 496--Land Nationalization no Assistance to the Reforms that are Needed, 498. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. It was a common topic of congratulation at the Exhibition of 1862 that the political atmosphere of Europe was then entirely free from the revolutionary alarms which overclouded the first Exhibition in 1851; but in that very year the old clouds began to gather once more at different quarters of the horizon. It was in 1862 that Lassalle delivered to a club of working men in Berlin his address on "The Present Epoch of the World, and the Idea of the Working Class," which was published shortly afterwards under the title of "The Working Man's Programme," and which has been called by his friends "The Wittenberg Theses" of the new socialist movement; and it was at the Exhibition itself that those relations were established between the delegates of English and French trade societies which issued eventually in the organization of the International. The double train thus laid has put in motion a propaganda of social revolution more vigorous, widespread, and dangerous than any which has preceded it.