BY THE SAME AUTHOR. SOCIALISM: ITS NATURE, ITS DANGERS, AND ITS REMEDIES CONSIDERED. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 7s. 6d. UTOPIAS; OR, SCHEMES OF SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT FROM SIR THOMAS MORE TO KARL MARX. Crown 8vo, cloth, price 5s. LONDON: KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & Co. BY THE REV. M. KAUFMANN, M.A. AUTHOR OF " "SOCIALISM: ITS NATURE, ITS DANGERS, AND ITS REMEDIES CONSIDERED LONDON KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1888 ANDOVER-HARVARD (The rights of translation and reproduction are reserved.) 698 cop. 1 TO E. VANSITTART NEALE, Esq. DEAR SIR, I dedicate to you this little volume on Christian Socialism because you are the oldest surviving member of that movement in England, and one who has never ceased from the first to believe and to teach others to believe in the eternal principles of Truth, Hope, and Love in the pursuit of a higher social ideal. One of the original promoters of co-operation, itself the beloved offspring of Christian Socialism, its legal adviser in times when as yet it was unprotected by the law, you have never since ceased to impress upon its members the higher law of Christian love as a paramount force in society. While others have lost faith in their fellow-men and voluntary effort, you have continued, hoping against hope and with "munificent trustfulness" in principle, to advocate the cause of co-operative union on higher than commercial principles, to accentuate the importance of the moral and religious factors in co-operative industry, and to aspire "after a union ever widening into that all-embracing federation to which the social reformer looks forward." A soul detached from the common pursuits of sordid gain, and rising far above the level of the fussy and forward, and often frothy and frivolous philanthropy of the hour, you have, with generous Christian devotion and self-denying sacrifices, b 2 kept before the minds of others a lofty standard of social duty, thus inspiring them with your own enthusiasm to maintain and uphold the truths of the social doctrine of Christ, whilst opposing with might and main Mammonworship and the spread of Materialism among high and low, condemned alike in the law and the Gospel. I am, Dear Sir, Ever yours truly, M. KAUFMANN. |