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wicked and that society could not hold together without the exe- 
cutioner ? Are not the police and the gallows the speaking at- 
tributes of the present society ? 
How I like that account of the European traveler, who, landing 
on an unknown shore and perceiving a gallows, falls on his knees 
to thank heaven for having conducted him to a civilized country ! 
Go, then, blind civilizees, pretending ministers . . . Border your 
capitals with a girdle of bastiles ; call thither armies to keep ward ; 
double, triple the body of your police ; enlarge your prisons, com- 
press, repress . . . Whatever you do to dam up the torrent of 
evil, all your efforts will not restrain its fury, for its source is in 
misery and in repugnant labor, and the torrent whose waters rise 
and rise incessantly, will not stop till its source be dried up. 
Listen, you palaverers who thunder so eloquently at the tribune 
against bad passions ; the origin of social troubles is not where you 
would say. The troubles of the society have their cause in the op- 
pression of labor by parasite capital and in repugnant labor. Yes, 
Monsieur Guizot, the puritan — yes, in repugnant labor, despite all 
that is written in your history of civilization, where you have dared 
to affirm that the constitutional system, that is to say, the advent of 
the grocers to power, was the last word of the human mind in mat- 
ters of constitutional government. How I enjoy in anticipation 
the laugh you will have with us over these crude opinions the first 
time we meet in the aromal life some fifty years hence. 
The wolf of the fable, seduced by the flattering account of the 
dog, is on the point of tendering his services to man when he per- 
ceives on the worn neck of the domestic animal the mark of the 
collar. 
‘‘You do not, then, run where you please ?’’ 
“ Not always ; but what matters it 
“ It matters so much that I will have none of all your dinners, 
and would not take a treasure at this price ’’ 
So saying. Master Wolf runs, and runs still. Why so ? Be- 
cause the subjection of the laborer disgusts generous natures with 
labor. The wolf does not refuse work from love of the far ni- 
ENTE ; he is the most active and indefatigable of all quadrupeds ; 
he refuses work from hatred of the injustice which presides over 
