available for the socialist propaganda and those not so available is rather to be drawn between the classes employed in the industrial and those employed in the pecuniary occupations. It is a question not so much of possessions as of employments ; not of relative wealth, but of work. It is a queation of work because it is a question of habits of thought, and work shapes the habits of thought. The socialists themselves construe the distinction to be a distinction in respect of habits of thought ; and habits of thought are made by habits of life rather than by a legal relation to accumulated goods. This legal relation may count materially in shaping the animus of the several economic classes ; but it appears not to be competent of itself to explain the limitations observable in the spread of socialistic sentiment.
The socialistic disaffection shows a curious tendency to overrun certain classes and to miss certain others. The men in the skilled mechanical
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trades are peculiarly liable to it, while at the extreme of immunity is probably the professioQ of the