| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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An association of socialists. | 1 |
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“The Fabian Society aims at the reorganisation of society by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership; and the yesting of them in the community for the general benefit.”—H. G. Wilshire: Fabian Essays on Socialism, June, 1891, p. 91. |
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 The name of the society is derived from Quintus Fabius, the Roman general, who won his way against Hannibal by wariness, not by violence, by caution, not by defiance. | 2 |
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“Fabian tactics lie in stealing inches, not in grasping leagues.”—Liberty Review, May 19th, 1894, p. 395, col. 1. |
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