My final chapter will be on the Cape Fabian Society, a body which was inaugurated about 1930 under the chairmanship of Arthur E. Abrahams, a Cape Town attorney, who had attended a school in Surrey held by the English Fabian Society, in which Bernard Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb were amongst its early leaders. Other Cape Town prominent members were A. Z. Berman, Julius Lewin and Walter Bone. The Society was very active and held regular meetings, having discussions on all aspects of social life, principally, of course, from the Socialist angle. They, like other Socialist groups, invited outside authorities to present their own, and with the assistance of more red-hot Socialists on occasions the discussions pro­voked warm arguments. There was, for example, a notable occasion when Professor Bohle (father of Hitler's former Gauleiter for Nazis living abroad) addressed the Society, and was given a very critical reception.

The highlight of the Society's activities, however, was the visit of George Bernard Shaw, who addressed two meetings in the Cape Town City Hall under the auspices of the Cape Town Fabian Society. These addresses resulted in a gain of several hundred pounds which Bernard Shaw turned over in full to the Cape Fabian Society.

In 1933 Mr. Abrahams spent some time in Soviet Russia, and on his return addressed a packed and attentive meeting on his ex­periences in the Soviet Union. However, shortly afterwards there was a rift in the happy life of the organisation, again on the question of black and white, but their policy, unlike the more revolutionary Socialists, was on the question of social equality, and not association as a means to aid the Socialist propaganda. The Society then became moribund, but in recent years it has revived, and is now holding occasional meetings and picking up a few promising members. With the Fabian Society-one of our many denominational varieties, of which, like the Christians, we have plenty-we have Philosophical Anarchists, the two extremes in the revolutionary movement. The Anarchists are anti-everything that is conventional in our social, industrial and political life, and every religious conception of God or biblical interpretations of it, or its version of world creation. Nothing reaches their conception of the purities and perfections of human life. They practise only such conventions of social life that harmonise association with their fellow beings, but they tolerate others' opinions. They abhor with bitterness industrial exploitation and war. The spectacle of men of different nations meeting in combat to club each other with rifle butts, and stab each other with bayonets, as reported in this war, to settle the international disputes of their rulers, is a display of international lunacy, and there is no other word for it.

The Fabians, however, are of a different psychological order. They are like the Philosophical Anarchists-the intellectuals of the movement-but they will conform to anything the political or industrial machinery may do, without any even inner protests. They contend they are Socialists, and that we shall subsequently reach that stage of society. They can truly see it coming. Yet many of their members in England are members of the orthodox political parties in the British Parliament. Again many of their members are, like Bernard Shaw and the late H. G. Wells, well-grounded Socialists. Shaw once said of his Marxian critics, "I am more Marxian they are themselves."

Communists generally assume that there are no Marxians outside the Communist Party, and some of those inside their party appear to think they have nothing more to learn about it. If one happened to tell them they had, they would immediately retort, "And you have a lot to forget."

That is also true, when we look back at our lives, and stupid though wonderful world. There is a lot we should be glad to forget, and there is still a very great lot we all have to learn before this world can be made a fit and habitable place for all to live in accordance with human conceptions of a happy and comfortable life.