Economics as the Basis, of Living Ethics: A Study in Scientific Social Philosophy (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Economics as the Basis, of Living Ethics: A Study in Scientific Social Philosophy A few words as to the origin and the drift of this book may be desired. Some six or eight years ago the writer, amid his bourgeois illusions, was caught for the first time by the alluring, the compelling quality of the great present-day questions centering about the socialistic movement. "Half-sick of shadows, " aesthetic, literary, ethical, he had no wish to be duped by another will-o'-the-wisp, or to retraverse the phantoms of Plato's cave man. Gingerly at first, "letting I dare not wait upon I would, " he at length found himself involved more and more. Finally he put forth, as strongly as he was able, into the theoretical confusion. Abandoning inferior guides he sought out the higher leaders. He therefore went to Marx, Engels, Kautsky, to Bochm-Bawerk, Mill, Clark, Fisher, Marshall, Hadley, Fetter and the like. After having absorbed more or less of poison from Marx, he would apply antidotes derived from Fisher or Marshall. Or having mounted with Fetter into the thinnish air of psychic values, he would next with Engels, Hyndman, or Spargo make a little excursion to the edges of the squalid hovels of the poor. Or after gliding for a time among the idealities of a Wordsworth, Greene, Caird, Vaughan, or Leo, he would seek refreshment in an antiseptic bath from the springs of a Prudhon, Bebel, Belfort Bax, Dietzgen, Blatchford, or would lull himself a while with the words of an "Appeal to Reason." The more he found himself inclining to socialistic philosophy, the more carefully he read vised with Clark, Bochm-Bawerk, Hadley and other modern orthodox leaders. The attempt was made to treat each guide with utter skepticism, to hear a Marx through a Boehm-Bawerk, a Clark through an Engels. 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.