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Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, and of a cure for all the social evils by a return to a state of nature, had, as we all know now, no more relation to fact than the dreams of an illiterate drunkard; but they were not without value as a vague and symbolical expression of certain evils from which the France of his day was suffering.

William Hurrell Mallock

[Things] are as they are, because they were as they were.

William Hurrell Mallock

William Hurrell Mallock

William Hurrell Mallock

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Born: February 7, 1849

Died: April 2, 1923 (aged 74)

Bio: William Hurrell Mallock was an English novelist and economics writer.

Known for:

A Human Document (1892)
The New Republic (1877)
A Critical Examination of Socialism (1907)
Memoirs of Life and Literature (1920)
The New Paul and Virginia (1878)

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