This expectation is already justified by the phenomena of contemporary opinion. The moral ideas appropriate to Socialism are permeating the whole of modern society. They are clearly recognisable not only in the proletariat, but also in the increasing philanthropic activity of members of the propertied class, who, while denouncing Socialism as a dangerous exaggeration of what is necessary for social health, work honestly enough for alleviatory reforms which converge irresistibly towards it. The form, perhaps, does not outrun the spirit, any more than the spirit anticipates the form; and it may have been sufficient in this paper to have shown some grounds for the conviction that Socialist morality, like that of all preceding systems, is only that morality which the conditions of human existence have made necessary; that it is only the expression of the eternal passion of life seeking its satisfaction through the striving of each individual for the freest and fullest activity; that Socialism is but a stage in the unending progression out of the weakness and the ignorance in which society and the individual alike are born, towards the strength and the enlightenment in which they can see and choose their own way forward--from the chaos where morality is not to the consciousness which sees that morality is reason; and to have made some attempt to justify the claim that the cardinal virtue of Socialism is nothing else than Common Sense. FOOTNOTES: [66] “The Quintessence of Socialism.” Swan, Sonnenschein and Co. [67] _E. G._, see “Communism and Socialism,” by Theodore D. Woolsey Sampson, Low and Co., London. [68] To the intelligent Socialist this phrase has, of course, no meaning. But against the non-Socialist who employs it, it may be legitimately used, _ad captandum_. [69] See _National Review_ for February, 1888, “Are Rich Landowners Idle?” by Lady Janetta Manners (now Duchess of Rutland). THE ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY. PROPERTY UNDER SOCIALISM. BY GRAHAM WALLAS.