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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.”

Quote by William Hurrell Mallock

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William Hurrell Mallock

William Hurrell Mallock was an English novelist born on February 7, 1849, and died on April 2, 1923. His works are known for their exploration of social and moral issues. more

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