be traced. In 1843 he set on foot a co-operative printing association, and started a journal advocating co-operation, Or as he termed it, “the pacific solution of the problem of the proletariat.” He also sat in the Republican Chamber of 1848: he was exiled in 1851 and lived in Jersey, not returning to France till 1869. He died in Paris under the Commune, and two of its members were deputed to attend his funeral, in the words of the Journal Officiel, 226 “not in honour of the partisan of the mystical ideas of which we now feel the evil, but of the politician who courageously undertook the defence of the vanquished after the days of June.” This is an allusion to the unpractical and non-political tendency of his teaching, which undertook to reform society by the inculcation of morality blended with mysticism, the result of which was to be the gradual spread of voluntary industrial co-operation.
We finish this series with the wellknown name of Louis Blanc, a personage more important than the last-named; and more definitely Socialistic in principles than either he or Lamennais, though his