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WILLIAM MORRIS


and afterward he taught. As we have before said, his
art and his Socialism were one and inseparable; for he
entered upon his political course blankly gnorant of
economics and in the effort to make possible for the
workman "a life to which the perception and creation of
beauty,--the enjoyment of real pleasure that is,-shall be
felt to be as necessary as daily bread."  Like Karl Marx,
he seemed to believe that the relations of man to man
have formed an ascending evolutionary series, developed
through the successive organic periods of history, and
that they are now undergoin a last crisis, at whose end,
these relations having been lose of master and slave in
the ancient republics, lord and serf in the Middle Ages,
capitalist and laborer in the nineteenth century, shall
      mtel=,under the happy reign of Socia,
those of rother and brothere