Excerpt from Applied Socialism: A Study of the Application Cation of Principles to the State But my colleagues in suggesting the subject had in mind a larger purpose also. Recognizing the fact that there are certain principles which are essential to a Socialist society, and the fact that there are discernible tendencies of social and eco nomic evolution which Socialists universally regard as evidences of the evolution of society toward So cialism, they felt that it was possible to correlate the principles of Socialism and the Socialist esti mate of economic and social tendencies into a help ful and suggestive outline of the Socialist society of the future, without departure from the method of science, or wandering into the Elysian Fields of Utopia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.