6. General and equal, popular and gratuitous education by the Government in all classes and institutes of learning; general duty to attend school; religion to be declared a private affair. The German Social Workingmen’s party insists on realizing in the present state of society: 1. The largest possible extension of political rights and freedom in conformity to the above six demands. 2. A single progressive income-tax for State, counties, and towns, instead of those which are imposed at present, and in place of indirect taxes, which unequally burden the people. 3. Unlimited right of combination. 4. A normal working-day corresponding with the wants of society; prohibition of Sunday labor. 5. Prohibition of children’s work and of women’s work, so far as it injures their health and morality. 6. Protective laws for the life and health of workingmen; sanitary control of their dwellings; superintendence of mines, factories, industry, and home work by officers chosen by the workingmen; an effectual law guaranteeing the responsibility of employers. 7. Regulation of prison-work. 8. Unrestricted self-government of all banks established for the mutual assistance of workingmen. The above scheme also represents very well the character of the Socialist agitators in the United States, who are themselves chiefly foreigners, and have foreign conceptions of socialism. On this form of socialism it is interesting to have Mr. Mill’s later opinions(154) in his own words.