CHAPTER III.

FERDINAND LASSALLE.

German Socialists before Lassalle, 93--Favourable Conditions for Socialist Agitation in Germany, 94--Character of Lassalle, 96--The Hatzfeldt Case, 99--Theft of the _Cassette_, 100--Trial for Sedition, 101--Literary Activity, 102--Letter to Leipzig Working Men, 103--Foundation of General Working Men's Association, 105--Lassalle's Agitation, 105--His Death, 106--Funeral, 108--Political Views, 109--Idea and Position of the Working Class, 109--Functions of the State, 111--Economic Doctrines, 113--Anarchic Socialism of the present Industrial _Régime_, 117--Ricardo's "Iron Law" of Wages, 119--A National, not an International Socialist, 124--Internationally not Peculiar to Socialist Parties, 126--Reason of Socialist Condemnation of Patriotism, 127.