not
aware that any other Socialist work, not even our "Communist
Manifesto" of 1848 or Marx's "Capital," has been so often
translated. In Germany it has had four editions of about 20,000
copies in all."

The man who has the good fortune to become familiar with the
contents of this pamphlet in early life will never, in after
life, be able to estimate its full value as a factor in his
intellectual development. I have persuaded many people to buy it
and have invariably given them this advice: "Keep it in your
coat pocket by day and under your pillow by night, and read it
again and again until you know it almost by heart."

At this point you may hold up the pamphlet and announce its price. If
this is done before the lecture, have the ushers pass through the
audience, each with a good supply, and beginning at the front row and
working rapidly so as not to unnecessarily delay the meeting. If the
sale is at the close of the meeting announce that copies may be had
while leaving and have your ushers in the rear so as to meet the
audience. A good deal depends on having live and capable ushers. Our big
sales at the Garrick are due to ushers being past masters in their art.

BOOK TALK NO 2.

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO.

In the year 1848--over sixty years ago--Scientific Socialism was
born. Almost every objection we now hear against Socialism holds
only against the utopian Socialism which died and was discarded
by Socialists more than half a century ago.

The birth of Scientific Socialism came as the result of the
discovery of a great new truth. This truth revolutionized all
our ideas about society just as Darwin's discovery, eleven years
later, revolutionized our notions of organic life.

From 1848 forward there was no need for speculations and guesses
as to how the world will be in the future or how it might be now
if it were not as it is. From that time we knew that the present
was carried in the womb of the past and the future is already
here in embryo.

If you think you know the main outlines of the future society
yet cannot find those outlines already developing in the society
about you, you are nursing a delusion. You belong to the
Socialism of Utopia--if your future society is not already here
in part, it is "nowhere," as Utopia means.

We know today that science does not consist of a mere colle