19133 The Apostle of Mutual Aid 



his wealth to the "single tax" movement, carrying 

 on an extensive propaganda in England as well as 

 America. I afterward met him at Le Touquet, and 

 learned to value his keenness of intellect and single- 

 hearted devotion to the common welfare. 



Prince Kropotkin, the Russian, was an intimate Kropotkin 

 friend of Mr. and Mrs. Moscheles, though we always 

 missed him at "the Grelix." Later, however, I 

 had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with 

 him in the London apartments of Mr. Fels. At once 

 I recalled that "there were giants in those days!" 

 Large of frame, with a huge head and great white 

 patriarchal beard, Kropotkin was a figure not to be 

 forgotten. For more than thirty years he had preached 

 the gospel of altruism, demonstrating the importance 

 of mutual aid as a dominant factor in animal life and 

 evolution — none the less so in the development of 

 man. For a quarter-century, more or less, he had 

 been banished from his native land, but showed no 

 abatement of sweetness of spirit, hope for the future, 

 and love for his countrymen. He is one of very many 

 democrats condemned to long years of exile in Siberia 

 and elsewhere. Autocratic Russia knew no other way 

 of dealing with men who thought and acted for them- 

 selves. 



At one of Madame Moscheles' afternoons I was a charm- 

 introduced to an attractive young woman whose 

 name I did not catch but who said she was from 

 Pasadena and had often heard me lecture in Cali- 

 fornia. Afterward in Cambridge I was invited by 

 my hostess, Mrs. Oppenheim, to go to tea with her at 

 the house of Lady Darwin, widow of Sir George H. 

 Darwin, former professor of Physics at Cambridge. 

 There I recognized the charming matron who pre- 



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