And his critical vigour does not increase when, taking
on himself the refrain that the collectivist society will be
like a convent, he says: ‘‘Shall we all be workmen? But
what! We shall all be beggars. Our daily activity will
have no other aim than to procure us a ‘ticket’ for a
kind of economic kitchen. Let one imagine the intrigues
and frauds with a view to obtaining these tickets, which
from the first day would play the part of money after a
little work or without any work. Let one imagine the
privileges, the exemptions, the waste, the certificates of
feigned illness, the family tickets, the double tickets, and
all imaginable tickets !”’ (page 87).
It is true that M. Garofalo’s book was written on his
own acknowledgment for the good bourgeoisie and not for
men of science, but it has been translated and published
in a celebrated ‘‘Library of Contemporary Philosophy.’’
Is it possible to believe that a man of talent, such as M.
