First edition. Flint’s rather conservative view of socialism is largely an unsympathetic one, and he even brands the Collectivists of the earlier part of the nineteenth century as ludicrous, though they were the progenitors of Marx’s idea that the worker owned the produce of his labor; an idea, Flint warns, that has not been proved, and still might never be. The most interesting section is probably the last, in which Flint attempts to show that Christian morality and socialist morality are compatible, and that the ‘good’ ideas of socialism are also the duties of the Church.