It was his first essay in the study of German literature, which he did so much to popularise in Britain.

Indolence and timidity have united to popularise among us a flaccid latitudinarianism, which thinks itself a benign tolerance for the opinions of others.

Sidney Webb, G. Bernard Shaw, Hubert and Mrs. Bland, Graham Wallasthese were some of those who gave time, thought, incessant work to the popularising of Socialist thought, the spreading of sound economics, the effort to turn the workers' energy toward social rather than merely political reform.