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London, Jack, 1876-1916

"Revolution, and Other Essays"

And the beauty of it
is that the people of the United States have achieved all this for
themselves. I did not achieve it for them. I repeat, they achieved
it for themselves. All that I did was to put the fear of death in
the hearts of the few that sat in the high places and obstructed the
coming of rationality and laughter. The fear of death made those in
the high places get out of the way, that was all, and gave the
intelligence of man a chance to realize itself socially.
"In the year that is to come I shall devote myself to the rest of the
world. I shall put the fear of death in the hearts of all that sit
in the high places in all the nations. And they will do as they have
done in the United States--get down out of the high places and give
the intelligence of man a chance for social rationality. All the
nations shall tread the path the United States is now on.
"And when all the nations are well along on that path, I shall have
something else for them. But first they must travel that path for
themselves.


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