A Critical Examination of Socialism, by

William Hurrell Mallock

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Title: A Critical Examination of Socialism

Author: William Hurrell Mallock

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Language: English

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A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF SOCIALISM

W.H. MALLOCK

London John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. 1908 Printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.

PREFACE

The Civic Federation of New York, an influential body which aims, in various ways, at harmonising apparently divergent industrial interests in America, having decided on supplementing its other activities by a campaign of political and economic education, invited me, at the beginning of the year 1907, to initiate a scientific discussion of socialism in a series of lectures or speeches, to be delivered under the auspices of certain of the great Universities in the United States. This invitation I accepted, but, the project being a new one, some difficulty arose as to the manner in which

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