Mr. Leonard Woolf
'Ought Everyone to be treated as equal?'

Last week Mr. Leonard Woolf recalled how the first democrats insisted that everyone ought to be treated as equal, politically and socially. Tonight he will weigh the pros and cons of this theory in the modern State. The tendency is for the Government to treat everybody as equal in voting power; but, on the other hand, wealth is not equally distributed, and hence Socialism has come into being; new privileged classes are arising. Further, there is a danger that if we were all equal, the standardization which is already, in the complication of modern Society, going on, might increase until people cease to be individuals.

Next week Mr. Woolf will attack the closely-related problem of individual liberty.