Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.
It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.
I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.
The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.
