I need not add anything to these admissions. They constitute, as I say, a complete surrender of the Socialistic doctrine of Labour, and an emphatic admission of the primary proposition I advanced as to the productive function of Ability. It is enough then to say, that so far as the question of Labour is concerned, Mr. Shaw throws over completely all the doctrines of the Gotha programme, the Erfurt programme, of Karl Marx and his disciples, of Mr. Hyndman and his Social Democrats—in fact the cardinal doctrine of Socialism as hitherto preached everywhere. Having disposed then of the point as to which Mr. Shaw agrees with me, I will pass on to the point on which he supposes me to disagree with him; and this is the point to which he devotes the larger part of his article. Everything else is thrown in as a sort of by-play. This point is as follows. Speaking roughly, and adopting the following figures, not because I consider them accurate, but merely because they agree with Mr. Shaw’s, and are for the present purpose as good as any others, above _seven hundred million pounds_ of the national income go to the non-labouring classes. Mr. Shaw, as I gather, would set down about _two hundred million pounds_ of this as the earnings or profits of Ability; whilst he contends that the remainder is the product neither of Ability nor Labour, but of capital or land. It represents the assistance which land and capital give to the two other productive agents; and it goes to those who possess this land and capital, simply on account of the rights which they possess as passive owners. This sum, which Mr. Shaw estimates at about _five hundred million pounds_,[62] ought, he contends, still to go to the owners—in fact, it must always go to its owners; but the owners should be changed. They should be the whole nation instead of a small class.