It is true that wealth has been greatly increased, and that the average of comfort, leisure and
refinement has been raised; but these gains are not general. In them the lowest class do not share.. . .
This association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times. … There is a vague but general feeling of disappointment; an increased bitterness among the working classes; a widespread feeling of unrest and brooding revolution.. . . The civilized world is trembling on the verge of a great movement. Either it must be a leap upward, which will open the way to advances yet undreamed of, or it must he a plunge downward which will carry us back toward barbarism. …