Excerpt from A History of the Ancient Working People, Vol. 2: From the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of Christianity by Constantine; Origins of Socialism The law of universal sofliage was conferral upon the organized working people by both Solon and Name Pompilius, and we have found and quoted inscriptions giving portions of it. They were not guilds like the mean and selfish non-political oorporations'ot' medieval and modern feudalism, but real, genuine voting tmdo unions greatly resembling the later institution called the socialist trade and labor alliance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.