Evening star., 1939-01-08

or neutrality. He new to Americs
ano was an even greatef success there
IMAM In MS oyn country.
BY H. G. WELLS.
CHAPTER xxx.
Infusion Of New Blood.
While Rud was making this Amer
1can trip, Bodisham's conceptions Of
organization were being greatly
elaborated and defined. For q while
his influence made Rud the pas
sionate advocate Of thinking things
out-even at the price of delay. An
obscure instinct for timing may have
contributed to that.
Bodisham insisted upon a series
OF conferences with practically all
the group present and participating
The egg of the world revolution was
indeed incubated in meetings like
tutorial classes. Our dramatic and
romantic dispositions would have 1t
otherwise, but that was the course
reality chose to take. It was be-
gotten of a sentence, it was fostered
in talk. In the beginning vas the
Word. There is no strong, silent
man in the history of the world
renascense.
Bodisham's organization charts
were destined to become historical
museum exhibits of the utmost i'm
portance. They have been repro
duced In the exactest facsimile q
score of times. Nearly every history
OF the world revolution displays the
central one as frontispiece. He
worked at them in that small draw
ing Office, still preserved intact for
all the world to visit, in number 16
He worked at them with a number
OF colored inks and a sublime un-
consciousness of the immense posi-
bilitias of his scheming. The ink
he split is still on the faded carpet;
the wall is pockmarked by his draw
ing pins. Occasionally he smudged
his work or used an ink eraser until
he nearly perforated the paper
Chiftan came and made suggestions
almost daily. He was more than q
little jealous of Bodisham, but he
had the generosity to respect his
quality and admit his own limita-
tions. His own intelligence worked
in brilliant flashes, but BodiSham's
went on, steadfastly burning flame
indefatigable. Rud came to survey
the developments, making some
times pithy comment and some
times merely standing in meditation
before the great scheme.
Conception Of Revolution.
The charts showed plainly the
developing conception of the world
revolution as it grew in the minds
Of its makers. Bodisham would
sit over his big sheets of paper
compasses in hand, breathing audi
bly,, thinking through long pauses
then flinging himself upon some
freshly apprehended Inkage, scrib-
bling, blotting, tearing the chart
from its drawing pins, shouting fol
his assistant to carry it away anc
recopy it-for the fortieth or fiftiett
time. The whole diagram was in
closed in a huge circle, and in thi!
clustered minor circles, which
touched, overlapped. were joined BY
colored bands and lines, signaled t.
each other with arrows, displayed
significant tinting. These thing.
meant association of leaders anc
direction. partial merger of activ.
tiles, mutual information and *
forth.
The all-comprising outer circle
represented what Rud called the
idea of common-sense, the idea that
a general agreement about life
among normal men, based on mu.
tual respect, Is possible, and that
this common agreement could bt
made the one supreme criterion o1
law and collective activity. Sweer
away authoritarian ideas, delusioni
of superiority and inferiority and q
general complex of subconscious dis.
honesties, and that was what yor
exposed. That was the true socia
contract.
The party in its more generaiizec
form was little more than a loosely
organized propaganda for the inten.
sive reiteration of this one common.
sense idea, the idea that the worle
as whole belongs to every human
being. The only justification fol
interference with the free dominion
of the individual was the common
good. No claim of authority or O.
debt was valid beyond that con
trolling consideration. This was .
fundamental concept of the move
ment, and it meant q continuour
attack on everything that set VI
preferential distinctions and divi
sions among mankind, that is to sa.
racial, national, religious, sexua
claims and assertions, and ever.
sort Of artificial advantage an,
privilege, all hereditary appropria
tions, inherited wealth or othe
priorities. It boldly and fatty de
MED the existence of any broad ant
essential differences in humanit
sufficient to justify privilege, en-
slavement or control. mo pre-nata
subjugation," was its leading phrase
mo prenatal debt. Otherwise mel
cannot be free"
Unprecedented Frankness.
Elaborately Bodisham was work
ing out the implications of thi
proposition and applying them stil
more elaborately to the drift o
world events.
With this fundamental concep
ton, the new movement faced tn
world. This fundamental concep
ton" was the outer ring of Bod
isham's diagrams. But so far i
hardly went beyond what primi
tive Christianity, Islam, anarchism
Rousseauism and all the primar,
leftisms had said before 1t. Di