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Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved.
Socialism and the Social
Movement in the
19th Century
BY
WERNER SOMBART
Professor in the University of Breslau
With a Chronicle of the Social Movement 1750-1896
"Je ne propose rien, je ne suppose rien; j'expose"
TRANSLATED BY
ANSON P. ATTERBURY
Pastor of the Park Presbyterian Church New York
WITH INTRODUCTION BY
JOHN B. CLARK
Professor of Political Economy
Columbia University
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
NEW YORK LONDON
27 WEST TWENTY-THIRD STREET 24 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND
The Knickerbocker Press
1898
Copyright, 1898
by
G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO THE OTHER AND BETTER MEMBER
OF THE COMMUNISTIC SOCIETY TO WHICH WE BELONG
THIS TRANSLATION IS INSCRIBED
PREFACE, BY THE TRANSLATORToC
While rambling through quaint old Nuremberg, last summer, I was drivenfor shelter from rain into a bookshop. In a conversation with thegenial proprietor, he called my attention to a book, lately published,that had already made a deep impression upon the world of Germanreaders. A reading and re-reading of the little book convinced me thatEnglish readers, as well, will be glad to follow Professor Sombart inhis comprehensive and suggestive review of Socialism.
Thanks are due to the learned German professor, whose name appears onthe title-page, for his courtesy in this matter; also to his Germanpublisher. I would also express obligation to my friend, ProfessorSigmon M. Stern, with whom I have consulted freely on some difficultpoints of translation. The Introduction by Professor John B. Clark, ofColumbia University, will be appreciated, I know, by the reader aswell as by myself.
A.P.A.
April, 1898.
INTRODUCTORY NOTEToC
The reader of this work will miss something which he has beenaccustomed to find in books on Socialism. Professor Sombart has notgiven us synopses of the theories of St. Simon, Proudhon, Marx, Owen,and others. His work marks the coming of a period in which socialismis to be studied, rather than the speculations of socialists. Theoriesand plans no longer constitute the movement. There are still schoolsof socialistic thought; but there is something actually taking placein the industrial world that is the important part of the socialisticmovement. Reality is the essence