i8 An Appeal to the Young. 



Where are they, indeed ? Why, some are taking 

 their ease with the most cowardly indifference ; 

 others, the majority, despise the " dirty mob," and 

 are ready to pounce upon them if they dare touch 

 one of t]icir privileges. 



Now and then, it is true, a young man comes 

 among us who dreams of drums and barricades, and 

 seeks sensational scenes; but he deserts the cause 

 of the people as soon as he perceives that the road 

 to the barricade is long, that the w-ork is heavy, and 

 that the crowns of laurel to be won in this campaign 

 are intermingled with thorns. Generally these are 

 ambitious schemers out of work, who, having failed 

 in their first efforts, try in this way to cajole people 

 out of their votes, but who a little later will be the 

 first to denounce them when the people wish to apply 

 the principles which they themselves have professed ; 

 perhaps will even be ready to turn artillery and gat- 

 lings upon them if they dare to move before they, 

 the heads of the movement, give the signal. 



Add mean insult, haughty contempt, cowardly 

 calumny from the great majority, and you know what 

 the people may expect now-a-days from most of the 

 youth of the upper and middle classes in the way of 

 help toward the social evolution. 



But then you ask, " What shall we do?" When 

 there is everything to be done ! When a whole army 

 of young people would find plenty to employ the en- 

 tire vigor of their youthful energy, the full force of 

 their intelligence and their talents, to help the people 

 in the vast enterprise they have undertaken! 



What shall we do? Listen: 



You lovers of pure science, if you are imbued with 

 the principles of socialism, if you have understood 

 the real meaning of the revolution which is even now 

 knocking at the door, do you not see that all science 

 has to be recast in order to place it in harmony with 

 the new principles; that it is your business to ac- 

 complish in this field a revolution far greater than 



