substantial distrust or iconoclasm. Their interest in this particular institution slackens through the toss of that emulative motive on which pecuniary endeavor proceeds, but their faith In Its intrinsic fitnesa Is not thereby shaken, nor are they thrown into lbs ranks of the chronic disBentienta. The training given by their life oontinuBB prevailingly to run on conventional grounds ; that is to aay, on grounds of legal relation, solvency, and the like. Accountants and office employees are nearly as conservative as clergymen and lawyers, and their being so is apparently due to the fact that their experience nms on much the same ground of conventional finality.
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able to this discipline. There is a sifting of the working classes, whereby the socialistic and mechanically capable are roughly segregated out from the rest and subjected to the iconoclastic discipline of the mechanical employments and matternaf-fact thinking ; while the residue, which is on the whole made up of the persons that are relatively least capable of revolutionary socialism, is at the same time leas exposed to the discipline that might fit them for the socialistic movement. This sifting is, of course, a rough one, and leaves many exceptions both ways.
In the light of this consideration, then, it is to be noted: (1) that the dominance of the machine', process in modem industry is not so potent a factor ! for the inculcation of socialistic notions — it does 1 not so irresistibly shape men's habit of mind in the ' socialistic sense — as the first survey of the facts would suggest; and (2) that the differentiation of , occupations involved in modem industrial methods I selectively bunches the socialistic elements together, I and so heightens their sense of class solidarity and ' acts to accentuate their bias, gives consistency to their ideals, and induces that boldness of conviction and action which is to be had only in a compact body of men.