In Glasier?s personal account of William Morris he reveals a side too often overlooked. This is an account of Morris?s contribution to the early days of Socialism by a fellow Socialist. Glasier notes: ?Morris was a Socialist by reason of his whole intellectual and moral construction, and whatever circumstances eventually led him to realise and to proclaim himself a Socialist, and there were doubtless many ? his Socialism was none the less a necessary expression of his whole nature.