• Tbis, of course, does not hold for lie inoffensfTe pseado-aociallstio diversloDH eel ofuot by various well-meaDing politicians and clergymea. known by vnrious qualifying deslKnations, such as " StAU," "ChriatUn," " Catholic," etc., and designed to act u correctives of the sooUUstio distemper.
BocialiBt antagonism to the state takes various fomiB and goes to varying degrees of intemperance, but it is consistently negative. Except in their destructively hostile attitude to existing pohtical organizations, the socialists have nothing consistent to offer on tffe head of political institutions, less, indeed, latterly than in the earlier days of the propaganda. There seems to be a growing shiftr leasness of opinion on this head ; one gets the impression that the sense of the socialist malcontents, as near as it may be permissible to use that word in this connection, is that the community can best get along without political institutions, j There is a like departure from the ancient norms 'touching domestic relations. This is not confined to those portions of the community that avowedly affect socialistic views, although it has, on the whole, gone farthest among the classes among whom the socialistic views prevail. There is a visible weakening of the family ties, a disintegration of the conventions of household life, throughout large classes. The defection is even felt, by sensitive and solicitous persona, to be of such grave propoi^ tions as to threaten the foundations of domestic life and morality. This disintegration of the family ties shows itself most alarmingly among the socialistic classes, with whom it all wears such an air of unconcern as argues that in this respect they are incorrigible. To these the conventional