Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist propaganda, founded in 1883, which “aims at the reorganisation of society by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership, and vesting of them in the community for the general benefit”; has lectureships, and issues “Essays” and “Tracts”; it watches and seizes its opportunities to achieve Socialist results, and hence the name. See Fabius Quintus (1).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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