So much for the Socialist movement, which a generation ago proposed to transform our Capitalist society into one where the community should be the universal owner and all men equally economically free or unfree under its tutelage. To-day their ideal has failed, and of the two sources whence their energy proceeded, the one is reluctantly, the other gladly, acquiescent in the advent of a society which is not Socialist at all but Servile. * * * * * (2) Of the _Practical_ Reformer: There is another type of Reformer, one who prides himself on _not_ being a socialist, and one of the greatest weight to-day. He also is making for the Servile State. This second factor in the change is the "Practical Man"; and this fool, on account of his great numbers and determining influence in the details of legislation, must be carefully examined. It is your "Practical Man" who says: "Whatever you theorists and doctrinaires may hold with regard to this proposal (which I support), though it may offend some abstract dogma of yours, yet _in practice_ you must admit that it does good. If you had _practical_ experience of the misery of the Jones' family, or had done _practical_ work yourself in Pudsey, you would have seen that a _practical_ man," etc. It is not difficult to discern that the Practical Man in social reform is exactly the same animal as the Practical Man in every other department of human energy, and may be discovered suffering from the same twin disabilities which stamp the Practical Man where-ever found: these twin disabilities are an inability to define his own first principles and an inability to follow the consequences proceeding from his own action. Both these disabilities proceed from one simple and deplorable form of impotence, the inability to think. Let us help the Practical Man in his weakness and do a little thinking for him. As a social reformer he has of course (though he does not know it) first principles and dogmas like all the rest of us, and _his_ first principles and dogmas are exactly the same as those which his intellectual superiors hold in the matter of social reform. The two things intolerable to him as a decent citizen (though a very stupid human being) are _insufficiency_ and _insecurity_. When he was "working" in the slums of Pudsey or raiding the proletarian Jones's from the secure base of Toynbee Hall, what shocked the worthy man most was "unemployment" and "destitution": that is, insecurity and insufficiency in flesh and blood.