organization, narrow and dangerous tendencies developed
within the Socialistic League which drifted toward Com-
munist-Anarchism. While thus his companions were
restive of all authority, Morris, although believing in a
complete equality of condition'for all persons, insisted that
there must be a public, or social conscience, to restrain
the desires and passions of individuals; without which
Authority there could be no Society.
                         So, once again, Morris found
himself detached from  those whom he had chosen as
companions in social progress, and in 1890, in his farewell
article in "The Commonweal," he acknowledged that
the ideals for which he had so fervently labored, and
which at times had seemed to him so near of realization,
were distant and impalpable. He retired to write his
most important and mature work upon the great move-
ment, which he gave to the world under the title of
"Socialism, Its Growth and Outcome,"
                         For the remaining years of his
life he was passive in the cause. He recognized that the
accumulated wrongs of centuries can not be set right in a
lifetime; that the evolution of human happiness can not
be otherwise than very gradual.


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"WILLIAM  MORRIS