Socialism, a social system which, in opposition to the competitive system that prevails at present, seeks to reorganise society on the basis, in the main, of a certain secularism in religion, of community of interest, and co-operation in labour for the common good, agreeably to the democratic spirit of the time and the changes required by the rise of individualism and the decay of feudalism.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Social War * Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge