The Labor enquirer., 1884-02-09


by lassltude, by corruption, by legal pro-
cesses then to reform the ranks reduced
by gun and mettrailluse again to resume
the studies broken up by determination
in masses. 24- n
The papers of this movement are
made by men who have stolen from So
ciety their fragments of instruction, by
depriving themselves of sleep and of
food and are sustained by the cents
taken from the bare necessaries of life
often from the dry bread-and the
whole agitation is kept up underline con-
tinual fear of seeing the family reduced
to the most frightful misery when the
proprietor perceives that his workman" !"
his slave" is Socialist.
This is what you will see if you come
among the People. 4
In this struggle without end we'll may
the worker, sinking under the weight of
his burden, cry, "Where, then, are those
young people that we have fed and
clothed while they studied, for whom
with our backs bending under the load,
and our bellies empty-wo have built
those mansions, those academies, those
museums; for whom, with grimy faces,
we have printed those beautiful books
which we cannot even read ? Where are
those professors, who, they say, under
stand humanitary science, and for whom
humanity is not worth rare kind OF
caterpillar? Where are those men who
make speeches about liberty and meyer
defend ours, trampled every day under
foot? Where are the writers, poets,
painters, all this band of hypccritos,
who speak of the people with tears in
their eyes, but are never found among
US helping us in our labors?
Where are they, indeed Some of
them are enjoying themselves with cow
ardIy indifference; while others, and
these from the majority-despise "the
mol" and are ready to rush on itshould
it dare to touch one of their privileges.
Now and then one and another of
them comes among the people, with
dreams of drums and barricades in their
heads in search of new sensations but
they desert the cause when they see that
the way of the barricade is long, the
work arduous, and that the crowns of
laurel they had hoped to gain are here
mixed with thorns. Oftener still, these
recruits are ambitious, and failing in
their first attempts, remain and try to
capture the suffrages of the people, but
farther along they will be the first to
turn against this people, when it tries to
apply the principles which they them.
selves profess, and perhaps will even
level the cannons against it should it
dare to move before they, the chiefs-of-
hle, nave gwen tne signal
Add to this, stupid insult, naughty
contempt and cowardly calumny, and
you will have what the bourgeoise youth
give the people to aid in its Social evo-
luton.
After that you can ask, What to do ?'
when all is to do; when whole armies
of young people should find to what to
apply the entire force of their energies
their intelligence, their talents, to aid
the people in the immense task which it
has undertaken
You, amateurs of pure science, if you
are penetrated by the principles of So
cialism, if you understand the revolu'
ton which is to be, do you not see that
all sci .nce is to be remade in accord with
the new principles, and that this exceeds
in importance all that has been done in
science up to the eighteenth century
Do you not understand that history-to-
day a "polite felton, of the grandeur Of
kings, great personages and parliaments
is all to be recast from the popular
point of view, is all to be rewritten from
the point of view of the work accom-
plished by the masses in the evolution
of humanity? Do you not see that So
cial economy-to-day the conservation
of capitalistic exploitation-is all to be
elaborated anew in its fundamental prin-
ciples as well as IN its innumerable ap-
plications2 Do you not know that an.
thropology, socioly, ethics are to be COM
pleteIy made over, and that the natural
sciences themselves, looked at from a
new point of view, must undergo a pro-
found modification, both as to the man.
ner of conceiying natural phenomenon,
and as to the manner of exposition
Well, then, do that. Put your intelli-
gence at the service of this cause. Above
all, come to aid us by your sound logic
to combat secular prejudices, to elaborate
by synthesis the base of better organ
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