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Author : William Morris

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      In offering this book to the public, we have to say that we thought it useless to
      go over the ground covered by so many treatises on Socialism, large and small,
      hostile and friendly, that have appeared of late years. We have dealt with our
      subject from the historical point of view ; this, we are aware, is a less exciting
      method than the building up of "practical" Utopias, or than attempting the solution
      of political problems within the immediate purview of the Socialist struggle of to
      day. On the other hand, a treatise on abstract economics, furnished with a complete
      apparatus of statistics, would have been more congenial to another class of mind.
      Nevertheless, a continuous sketch of the development of history in relation to
      Socialism, even as slight as it is here, should have its value if efficiently done.
      Our plan also necessarily deals with the aspirations of Socialists now living,
      toward the society of the future.
    
    
      We have only further to add that the work has been in the true sense of the word a
      collaboration, each sentence having been carefully considered by both the authors
      in common, although now one, now the other, has had more to do with initial
      suggestions in different portions of the work.
    


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     Preface -- Added : February 28, 2021

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