A B C of modern socialism

45 difficult to explain. It is thought out in such a way that the first category of values includes the second and the third; the second includes the third, but not the first; the third does not include the first or second. It is not possible for men to realise morality, science and beauty if there are no men and if men do not possess such economic values as are necessary for their subsistence.”

Here we have a view of life which is surely profoundly true. How tragically far apart from the motives and actions of men in existing circumstances! It is our task, in functional harmony, to supplant the third category, which is now unhappily the master passion of Mankind, by unresting search for the good, the true and the beautiful. It is only in the union of Function with Labour that the acquisitive brutalities of modern life can be swept away.