At a time when Capitalism is openly reproached as an exploitation of Labor, back into which it should be resolved and integrated at the expense of individual ambition, initiative and comprehensive genius; when vulgar equality and fraternity are rated above aesthetic excellence and distinction, as if man could live by bread alone, this brief treatise is obviously issued as a protest against what is deemed and exalted as the "ideal " of Socialism - but which the author regards rather as an inconsequential dream that does not realize its own meaning-and also as a defense of the Capitalist class from objurgations born of prejudice and ignorant inexperience.