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century with the Bill of Rights the French 

 Revolution ; like the Italian Revolution 

 accomplished in Tuscany in 1859 ; like the 

 Brazilian Revolution with the exile of the 

 Emperor, Dom Pedro, in 1892. 



It is certain that culture spread further 

 among the people and their conscious organi- 

 sation into a class party under the banner of 

 socialism, only augment the probability of 

 our wish, and dissipate the old conjectures of 

 a reaction after the advent of socialism, for 

 which there was good reason when socialism 

 was still Utopian in its means of realisation 

 instead of being, as it is now, a natural and 

 spontaneous, and therefore inevitable and 

 irrevocable, phase of human evolution. 



Whence will this social revolution start ? I 

 am firmly convinced that, if the Latin nations, 

 because they are Southern, are more ready for 

 a revolt, which may suffice when it is a ques- 

 tion of purely political changes, the nations of 

 the North, German, and Anglo-Saxon, are 

 better prepared for the tranquil but inexorable 

 discipline of the true revolution understood as 

 a critical phase of a prior organic and partial 

 evolution the only efficacious process for a 

 change really social. 



It is in Germany and in England where the 

 greater development of bourgeois industrial- 

 ism inevitably accelerates its unpleasant 

 consequences, and consequently accelerates the 

 necessity of socialism, it is there that the great 

 social metamorphosis will perhaps begin, the 

 seeds of which are sown everywhere else, and 

 from there it will propagate itself across the 



