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 EOLUTION OF SOCIALIST PROGRAMME IN GERMANY 709 labourers will not solve the social question, but at any rate it is a stage o the way to its solutio / ' Hencefoh then, judging by all appearances, we may look to Social Democracy for straightforward co-operation in the work of social reform, even though this be never rendered on the under- standing that in a perfected system of labour laws would lie the nal aim of social readjustment for an appreciable period of time.
 * But we can afford to feel indifferent as to the particular grounds

determining that party to take par in the grand work of reform, the execution of which will constitute the chief task of the immediate future. The one thing important is that laws, which make for economic equality and social peace between class and class, and for the universalization of the goods of modern culture and civilization, should be brought in and carried out with the joyful and sincere concurrence of all ranks and of 11 parties! GEORGE ADLER Translated by CAROLINE A. FOLEY, M.A.