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The Socialists Wish to Play God
Socialists look upon people as raw
material to be formed into social combinations. This is so true
that, if by chance, the socialists have any doubts about the
success of these combinations, they will demand that a small
portion of mankind be set aside to experiment upon. The popular
idea of trying all systems is well known. And one socialist
leader has been known seriously to demand that the Constituent
Assembly give him a small district with all its inhabitants, to
try his experiments upon. In the same manner, an inventor makes a
model before he constructs the full-sized machine; the chemist
wastes some chemicals—the farmer wastes some seeds and
land—to try out an idea.
But what a difference there is
between the gardener and his trees, between the inventor and his
machine, between the chemist and his elements, between the farmer
and his seeds! And in all sincerity, the socialist thinks that
there is the same difference between him and mankind!
It is no wonder that the writers of
the nineteenth century look upon society as an artificial
creation of the legislator’s genius. This idea—the
fruit of classical education—has taken possession of all the
intellectuals and famous writers of our country. To these
intellectuals and writers, the relationship between persons and
the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between
the clay and the potter.
Moreover, even where they have
consented to recognize a principle of action in the heart of
man—and a principle of discernment in man’s
intellect—they have considered these gifts from God to be
fatal gifts. They have thought that persons, under the impulse of
these two gifts, would fatally tend to ruin themselves. They
assume that if the legislators left persons free to follow their
own inclinations, they would arrive at atheism instead of
religion, ignorance instead of knowledge, poverty instead of
production and exchange.
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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