They are evolutionary
products. The emancipation of labor, I believe, will not be gained by
revolution but by prolonged effort, continued month by month and year by
year, in which first this thing is adventured, then that: each
enterprise brings its own gifts of wisdom and experience, and there is
no reaction, because, instead of the violent use of certain powers, the
whole being is braced: experience, intellect, desire, all strong and
working harmoniously, press forward and support each other, and no
enterprise is undertaken where the intellect to carry it out is not
present together with the desire. It requires great intellectual and
moral qualities to bring about a revolution. A rage at present
conditions is not enough.
XI.
Our farmers are already free. The problem with them is not now
concerned with freedom, but how they may be brought into a solidarity
with each other and the nation. To make our proletarians free and
masters of their own energies, in unison with each other and the
national being, is the most pressing labor of the many before us.
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