The Theory Of Business Enterprise

law. Bankers and other like classes of business men, together with clergymen and politicians, are also to be held free of serious aspersion ; similarly, the great body of the rural population are immune, includiog the population of the country towns, and in an eminent degree the small farmers of the remoter country districts ' ; so also the delinquent classes of the cities and the populace of half -civilized and barbarous countries. The body of unskilled laborers, especially those not aasociated with the men in the skilled mechanical trades, are not seriously affected. The centres ' of socialistic disaffection are the more important industrial towns, and the effective nucleus of the socialistic malcontents is made up of the more intelligent body of workmen in the highly organized and specialized industries. Not that socialism does not spread in virulent form outside this narrow range, but at a farther remove from the centre of dispersion it appears rather sporadically and uncertainly, while within this field it is fairly endemic. As regards the educated classes, socialistic views are particularly likely to crop out among the men in the material sciences.