bourgeoisie must abandon economic and 

 political power in order that both may be 

 exercised for the advantage of all in the new 

 society, and that when, as Berennini recently 

 said, conquerors and conquered become really 

 brothers without distinction of class in the 

 common security of a life worthy of a human 

 being, let us hope that in abandoning power 

 the bourgeoisie may do so with the dignity 

 and respectability that the aristocracy showed 

 when it was despoiled as a class by the 

 triumphant bourgeoisie at the moment of the 

 French Revolution. 



It is the truth brought by socialism, and its 

 complete accord with the most certain induc- 

 tions of positive science, which explains to us 

 not only its immense progress which might 

 be only the purely negative effect of a material 

 and moral uneasiness become acute in a period 

 of social crisis, but which especially explains- 

 this unity of disciplineand conscious solidarity 

 which offers by the world-wide demonstrations 

 of the first of May, a moral phenomenon of a 

 grandeur of which human history gives no 

 other example if we except the movement of 

 primitive Christianity, which had moreover a 

 much more restricted field of action than 

 contemporary socialism. 



Beyondsome hysterical or ignorant efforts for 

 a return of bourgeois scepticism to mysticism, 

 as a safeguard against the moral and material 

 crisis of the present time (which recalls to us 

 the wanton woman who became sanctimo- 

 nious irf her old age)* the partisans and 



* We can, however, mention certain very sympathetic 



