The leading facts and the history of these Socialistic adventures ought to be read in Mr. W. H. Mallock’s the _Limits of Pure Democracy_, Book IV, chap. 2, p. 201, where they are set out with much acute criticism. The last of these great experiments was in 1893, when William Lane established his “New Australia” in Paraguay. In Lane’s constitution the workers were controlled and directed by officials of their own choosing. The colony came to sad grief and ultimately decided by vote that every man should be entitled to dispose of the fruits of his own industry. A new grant of land was made by the Government to a large number of the original colonists; they retrieved their failure and became, under the stimulus of each working for himself, successful farmers. The causes of the unhappy end of those great adventures are summed up thus by Mr. Mallock (p. 216):—“To speak broadly they may be reduced to two, one of them inhering in the nature of all collective industry, the other inhering in the nature of human beings with the sole exception of small and essentially select minorities. The first of these causes was a want of ability in industrial direction. The second was a want of any general sentiment sufficiently strong and persistent to ensure that directions, if given, should be accepted with submission on the one hand and carried out with a diligence punctual and sustained on the other, under a social system the essential object of which was to render the conditions of the worst worker equal to the conditions of the best.” Limits within which Nationalization is Practicable