The Social Science of the Constitution of Society. (Effingham Wilson.)
—The author of this volume proposes to provide a remedy for the evils by which the present condition of society is disfigured, by establishing community of property, and equality of social and political rights. The plan is nearly as old as it is impracticable ; nor have we been able to find anything new in the arguments by which it is supported on the present occasion. As to the manner in which these arguments are put forward by our author, a single sentence, chosen almost at random, will probably supply all the information which the reader is likely to require. " Of course, the value of gold may or may not be equal to iron is a normal or unartificial state of society; it would be then used inde- pendent of an unnecessary circulating medium, that would determine their real value, for value would be reversed by being the more valued or in demand the loss labour in their production."
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