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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