The capitalist class offers nothing that is clean, noble, and alive.
The revolutionists offer everything that is clean, noble, and alive.
They offer service, unselfishness, sacrifice, martyrdom--the things
that sting awake the imagination of the people, touching their hearts
with the fervour that arises out of the impulse toward good and which
is essentially religious in its nature.
But the revolutionists blow hot and blow cold. They offer facts and
statistics, economics and scientific arguments. If the working-man
be merely selfish, the revolutionists show him, mathematically
demonstrate to him, that his condition will be bettered by the
revolution. If the working-man be the higher type, moved by impulses
toward right conduct, if he have soul and spirit, the revolutionists
offer him the things of the soul and the spirit, the tremendous
things that cannot be measured by dollars and cents, nor be held down
by dollars and cents. The revolutionist cries out upon wrong and
injustice, and preaches righteousness.
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