Note 1257 — Chapter III · : THE SOLIDARISTS

M. Léon Bourgeois’s La Solidarité appeared originally as a series of articles contributed to the Nouvelle Revue in 1896. These were published in book form in the following year. The different aspects of the question have been dealt with in a series of lectures delivered by various authors at the École des Hautes Études sociales under the presidency of M. Bourgeois himself, and published in a volume entitled Essai d’une Philosophie de la Solidarité (1902). An association for the propagation of the new ideas was founded in 1895 under the name of La Société d’Éducation sociale. An International Congress was called together on the occasion of the 1900 Exposition, but since then the signs of activity have been few.

French books and articles dealing with the subject are plentiful enough. We can only mention La Solidarité sociale et ses Nouvelles Formules, by M. d’Eichthal (1903); the annual report of L’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques for 1903; M. Bouglé’s book Le Solidarisme (1907); and Fleurant’s La Solidarité (1907). There is hardly a manual for teachers published which does not contain a chapter devoted to this question.