_It is right and necessary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, and be of itself pleasant to do: and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious._ Turn that claim about as I may, think of it as long as I can, I cannot find that it is an exorbitant claim; yet again I say if Society would or could admit it, the face of the world would be changed; discontent and strife and dishonesty would be ended. To feel that we were doing work useful to others and pleasant to ourselves, and that such work and its due reward _could_ not fail us! What serious harm could happen to us then? And the price to be paid for so making the world happy is Revolution."[38] Are they willing to pay the price? Nora paid the price for her freedom and paid it in full. _She took nothing from strangers._ If they are unwilling to pay the price, what is there left for them save the joyless sensuality and black despair of pessimism? FOOTNOTES: [7] "The Theory of Business Enterprise," Veblen, New York, 1904. Pages 351, 352. See also my article on Veblen the Revolutionist, International Socialist Review, June, 1905, vol. V, page 726. [8] Throughout this article "nihilism" is not used in its strict technical or philosophical sense, but is used simply as a convenient term by which to designate the aggregate of those aspects of Socialism which, viewed from the standpoint of the existing regime, appear as negative and destructive. [9] "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy." Karl Marx, New York, 1904. Pages 11, 12. [10] "See Philosophical Essays," Joseph Dietzgen, Chicago, 1906. Pages 174 and 52. [11] "Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History." Antonio Labriola, Chicago, 1904. Pages 85, 86. [12] l. c. pages 155-6, 158. [13] "Philosophical Essays." Dietzgen. Page 86. [14] "Socialism and Modern Science." Enrico Ferri, New York, 1904. Pages 60, 61. [15] "Philosophical Essays." Dietzgen. Page 116. [16] The reader will observe that Ferri reads into the Erfurt pronouncement on religion (quoted in full above) a broader spirit of tolerance than its words necessarily imply. [17] See "The Theory of the Leisure Class." Thorstein Veblen, New York, 1905. Pages 287, 288. [18] Marx in "Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechts Philosophie." [19] "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State." F. Engels, Chicago, 1905. Page 99, and "Woman under Socialism," August Bebel, New York, 1904. Page 127. [20] Engels, "Origin of the Family, &c." Page 100. [21] (Mrs. Parsons'.) The enlightened public opinion of to-day finds the chief if not the only warrant for universal male suffrage in its being an educational means. In this view women need the suffrage at present even more than men.