The Society accordingly works for the extinction of private property in Land and of the consequent individual appropriation, in the form of Rent, of the price paid for permission to use the earth, as well as for the advantages of superior soils and sites.

The Society, further, works for the transfer to the community of the administration of such industrial Capital as can conveniently be managed socially.  For, owing to the monopoly of the means of production in the past, industrial inventions and the transformation of surplus income into Capital have mainly enriched the proprietary class, the worker being now dependent on that class for leave to earn a living.

If these measures be carried out, without compensation (though not without such relief to expropriated individuals as may seem fit to the community), Rent and Interest will be added to the reward of labour, the idle class now living on the labour of others will necessarily disappear, and practical equality of opportunity will be maintained by the spontaneous action of economic forces with much less interference with personal liberty than the present system entails.

For the attainment of these ends the Fabian Society looks to the spread of Socialist opinions, and the social and political changes consequent thereon, including the establishment of equal citizenship for men and women.[58] It seeks to achieve these ends by the general dissemination of knowledge as to the relation between the individual and Society in its economic, ethical, and political aspects.

FOOTNOTES: 

[58] The words in italics were added in 1907.  See page 177.

Appendix III

List of the names and the years of office of the ninety-six members of the Executive Committee, 1884-1915

The full term of office is from April to March, and such an entry as 1901-2 usually means one year’s office.  Membership has been terminated in many cases by resignation, in the great majority by refusal to stand for re-election, in perhaps a dozen cases by defeat, and never by death.

Alden, Percy, M.P., 1903-7. 
Allen, Clifford, 1912 to date. 
Anderson, R. Wherry, 1898-1903. 
Atkinson, Miss Mabel, 1909 to date.

Ball, Sidney, 1907-8. 
Banner, Robert, 1892. 
Barker, Granville, 1907-12. 
Bentham, Dr. Ethel, 1909-14. 
Bentinck, Mrs. R. Cavendish, 1911-13. 
Besant, Mrs. Annie, 1886-90. 
Bland, Hubert, 1884-1911.  Honorary Treasurer 1884-1911. 
Blatch, Mrs. Stanton, 1894-5. 
Bray, Reginald A., 1911-12. 
Brooke, Miss Emma, 1893-6.

Cameron, Miss Mary, 1893-4. 
Campbell, Rev. R.J., 1908-9. 
Charrington, Charles, 1899-1904. 
Chesterton, Cecil E., 1904-7. 
Clarke, William, 1888-91. 
Cole, G.D.H., 1914-15.

Davies, Emil, 1911 to date. 
Dearmer, Rev. Percy, 1895-8. 
Dell, Robert E., 1890-3; 1898-9. 
De Mattos, W.S., 1890-4. 
Dodd, F. Lawson, 1900 to date.  Honorary Treasurer 1911 to date.