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 regard the traditional ways of acquiring and using property, and the economic system engaged in these processes, as part of the order of nature and outside the bounds of rational inquiry? But while most members of the possessing and ruling classes thus accept their property and power as needing no defence, the more intelligent minority, who fear encroachments from the workers as trade unionists and citizens inflamed by Socialist propaganda, are grateful for the reasoned protection provided by academic and Press “defenders of the faith.”