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longer because they are only light blows 

 localised against a fortress which has still a 

 power of resistance more than sufficient to 

 keep victorious, and by this victory to arrest 

 evolution momentarily, thanks to the process 

 of selection which eliminates the boldest and 

 strongest adversaries. 



Marxian socialism is revolutionary in the 

 scientific sense of the word, and it is being 

 developed henceforth into thorough social 

 revolution. No one would, I think, deny that 

 the end of the igth century marks the critical 

 phase of the bourgeois evolution started with 

 all steam up, even in Italy, on the track of 

 individualist capitalism. 



Marxian socialism has the frankness to say, 

 by the mouth of its most authoritative repre- 

 sentative, to the great suffering phalanx of the 

 modern proletariat that there is no magic 

 wand which transforms the world from one 

 day to the next, as one changes the scenes in a 

 theatre ; it says, on the contrary, repeating 

 the prophetic cry of Marx, "Proletarians of all 

 countries, unite " ; that the social revolution 



preaching anarchy becauses he wishes to suppress "the 

 medal of the deputy," and delights in the double meaning 

 of the word "revolution." 



Also, in my opinion, a more complete study of natural 

 sciences in the elementary and secondary schools instead 

 of the classicism inoculated by Latin and Greek, which 

 does not temper young people for life, but sterilises them 

 in archaeological contemplation of togas and of the fasces 

 of lictors might be the most efficacious antidote much 

 better than repression to the political individualist 

 romanticism of the "dagger of Brutus," or of the 

 "wisdom of Titus." 



But unfortunately there are no reliable criteria in the 

 public instruction of the bourgeois world, and that only 

 confirms me in my affrmation : when anarchy descends 

 from above, anarchist sentiment mounts from below. 



