For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free.

Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.