We may rather point to the attempt, to the widespread interest, and to the eager if ill-founded hopes that accompanied it, as signs of vitality.
"The Operatic Problem"
William Johnson Galloway
But though Marlo cannot be said to have contributed in any respect to the present socialistic movement, his work deserves attentive consideration as a plea for fundamental social reform, advanced by a detached and independent thinker, who has given years of patient study to the phenomena of modern economic life, and holds them to indicate the presence of a deep-seated and widespread social disease.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Such a feeling was very widespread during the reign of the late Czar, and, indeed, is still so.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae