ai« also Protestant (iireligious) rather than Catholic.
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try gives the dominant note of life. The correlation between the two phenomena is of such a kind as to leave no doubt that they are causally connected; which means either that the machine industry, directly or indirectly, gives rise to socialism, or that the two are expressions of the same complex of causes. The former statement probably expresses the truth of the case in great part, but the latter need not therefore be false. Whereverl and in so far as the increase and diffusion of knowl-1 edge has made the machine process and the me- 1 chanical technology the tone-giving factor in men's \ Bcheme of thought, there modem socialistic icono- ( clasm follows by easy consequence.
The socialistic bias primarily touches economic institutions proper. But that is not the whole of it. When the term is used without modifying phrase it carries a certain implication touching other than primarily economic matters. The political bias of this immitigated socialism is always radically democratic, to the extent that these socialists are in a high degree intolerant of any monarchical, aristocratic, or other prescriptive government. The state is doomed in the socialistic view.' The