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THE WAYS OF REVOLUTION the genuine revolutionist only half

Nothing is now under the sun, and the century separates the Russian Revolution tion of Belgium and Poland could be from Alexander II edict of emancipa postponed until such problems were oldest master of the science concluded his

FSMS tion. It is his simplicity which makes settled, and their discussion might relive Politica with a dissertation on re volutions But the waters of Lethe and the revolutionist so attractive and son the Prussians of all anxieties about the the fountains of ignorance can turn the practical and when he loses it he he war, and incidentally settle the fate of veriest truism into paradox; and the comes a politician, a man about town. international idealist Revolutionists might be statesmen if Junkers were capacity of being surprised at the course instead of a native son of the soil. of human affairs is not likely to disap volutions are not made, though they may equally naif, but the dove with All its pear in a world of ME PARE AND WHATSA

science which be manipulated, by the sophisticated, innocence cannot afford to leave all the regards historical fact as irrelevant to The man of the world does not see visions wisdom to the serpent. present experience, and expects to probe and dream dreams, the mirage only ap. Experience is, however, an excellent if the secrets of men's souls by means of the pears to those who are athirst; and no an exacting teacher, and the simplicity lans and of Röntgen rays. The historias, statcaman thinks of abandoning the of revolutionists is due to their past ex on the other hand, finds it difficult to meagre, stale, forbidding ways of custom, clusion from public affairs. Events move more quickly with railways, newspapers determine which throws the greater light law, and statute" for short cuts to a

heaven and

and the telegraph, than they did a ten- / дет earth. on the other, the past on the present, or now

tury and a quarter ago, and the Russians to inex the present on the past; and ho is content Those ways only appeal

uro learning the lessons of practical and revolutions. to leave the dispute with the conviction perienced travellers, that neither can be understood without occur for the most part among people not politics faster than did the French Mili the other Revolutions before his eyes accustomed to goveen themselves. Theretary discipline will probably be restored help him to realize the forces and pas have been other revolutions, like our own less time than the two years and more glong which produced revolutions in the in 1683-8, 60 respectable, as hardly to it took it the French Revolution; and if past, and charts of earlier disturbances deserve the name; the expulsion of James the Russians have hampered their gen provide him with some indications of the II resembled the recent expulsion of erala by sending civil commissionera to Constantine,, and it is a sound instinct control them and by making civis virtua an avenue to military rank the French probable course of present emotions.

The value of the comparison is thus which gives the name of revolution" Convention did the game When the first Skad ned against the Austrians in Belgium, two-fold, academic and practica!, but the to the Russian crisis but denies it to the French Revolutionary offensive was plai-

Greek academic value is the less problematic.

The technical definition of a revolution two of the armies did nothing and the third considerably. less it threw down The careful study of a revolution in pro gress vill give the observer a much more is a constitutional change which has 10 thire

be carried out by anconstitutional means its arms in face of the foe, ran for its certain light of the past than a know- An ampler description would be evolu bass at Lille, and revenged itself by may ledge of the past will throw on the pretion telescoped," or "fusion while Fodiers of Napoleon set precedents as dan-

Foudering its general; and the future sof sent; and the reason is that, however weit The revolutionist, attempts to do

those of Brasiloff. Seven Mar- assiduously we may cultivate and train

Naturs never does what

and to accom grous the faculty of projecting our minds into

promotion to election the rank and other surroundings, we can never feel the plish things by leaps; the work of ages shals of the Empire owed their initial

packed into one concentrated 18

moment past with the same vivid reality that

hendifcor

muting against his command- toel the present.

George Washington of delirious enthusiasm. It is a questionale Davoust first sigualized himsel

of political chemistry against

and Napoleon owed his rise The following is a continuation of once remarked with an approach to biology, and the dynamite of sucial

patience that people can never see what

is invoked to remedy the tardiness to his success against doBath

Anilitarist. against the mob in Toulon and theit Mr Lloyd George paid a tribute to they do not feel, and the same idea

The revolutionist wants 10 Russian democracy, while it would make the earth on the chance of being gibe explode

short work of the Central Empires, would. religions blown to heaven, and Do Amrica's vital assistance in financing the teacher is the tax collector. But the

zealot

futuro war, and her effective help in many other is true of all in different degrees accord more bent on other-worldliness greatly disturb its Allies, and postpone ways. He was confident that the great ing to the extent of their intelligence and Faith that is not nocording to knowledge of world, nor the rification shoulder would utterly overthrew the stable and pacific world are scornful the essence of revolutions; they begin with Russian Revolutions goes für because they danocracies now marching shoulder to imagination. Historians writing in and action that ignores experience are of the walletista between the French and an idealism which sobers under the blows are two of the most elemental movements menace still threatening the liberty of drum and trumpet histories

of all extenuation of the m

means of practiont realization. The revoir of mankind, and the petitions of his

innocence, he the world, then a fortunate generations have Lionist is conscious of his

Admiral S. Benson, U.S. Chief of "Y" Naval Operations in acknowledging the made revolutions of preserved law and finds a scapegoat in the old autocracy tory arise from the Fundamental unity

read Taine on the French for all existing social sing he heaps then of human nature. But the fact warmth of the Mission's reception, em Revolution with less patience now that

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ANGLO-AMERICAN CONFERENCE.

PRIME MINISTER'S TRIBUTE TO. AMERICA.

LONDON November 21st

yesterday's cable

the American Navy's invaluable services, lies the saying that the best der of

We

wilderness the blissful moment the hydrogen to one of oxygen will not give- phasized America's profound determinove the problems the Russian Ron its head and driven it, out into the water always consists of two parts of tion to do her utmost to enable all men volution before our eyes, and are less

are direction of acy particulat people are to enjoy the right to life, liberty and husiastic about the sacred rights penal codes, or at least of capital punish for the strength of any particular wave; nappiness. The Mission was inxious to the subject than we were

when danger 1A Russian convicted of forty learn as many lessons as possible from

to the estate appeared on unsubstantinterim asked for liberty that might

he the Allies' experiences, and was grateful bogey, Warshould be less horrified use his gres, infurrce with the the result transcends the possibility f for the manner in which these were Committee of Public Safety, the guillo not as an awful example or as a

military dictatorship in

crimes

and the forces which play upon human nature are so inter

infinite in their variety that on. But just as the accurate calculation.

thrown open to them. The United States tine, or a we were wont to be atved from the burning, but as a hero absence of uniformity in the weather is

of

gources in men, shing and work would volution; and our toleration would not the police and go many titles and still fewer understand it. All new

work the United States had accomplished Revolutionists were our foos easier to drive our scapegoat

AMERICA AND THE WAR DESTROYER SUNK IN COLLISION

and we

convince

es of robbery and via ogies

the

days chemistry was and

Be the falseness of th

Bo refle

reflection upon the science of meteoro- was heart and sul in the war, and the sia to-day

logy, 80 the perennial Paradoxes country absolutely endorsed President similar phenomena when we encountered in the fight for the faith against law and Wilson's statement that none of the re them in our histories of the French Re-order was the old order, and humen affairs cast no stigma upon the

law was the Tsar's ukose: forty crimes

science of history, though it is so new law and order were so many science that few are aware of its existence, be spared in order to win the war, be entirely due to the fact that the Rus

revolutionary vir

virtue. It is, however Admiral Benson detailed the immense sites are our Allica while the French

apegoat into the sciences, indreover, have to struggle with

tares and in its wilderness than to exorcis inherited No doubt that change of circumstance

alchemy to the and was accomplishing not only in the

our sympathy with any instincts, and the persistence of crime astronomy was astrology. The science of training of armies, building fcets, and facilitates in the manufacture of munitions, but methods that may restore efficiency to the after the abolition of its penalties con history, liks that of meteorology, his to the Lieretricious popularity of also in food economy and the saccessful Russian Government, discipline to its strains the revolutionist in time to dis- SOLEWnd Old Moore, and to wath is development of aircraft, armice, and strength to the common tinguish between the virtuous properties

be much more of should

of law and and the vicious accidents The Conference then discussed the critical of similar methods employed at of Tsardom.

underlie the notion that agenda

followed by lynching on historical repetitions are as simple as Berlin or Vienna But it is our natural

with our

enemies that want of sympathy:

comprehensive scale,

recurring decimals. We can, However makes it eo difficult for us to interpret libertarian that strong government, so point to certain phenomena, the compara and forecast the course of German far from being the imposition of tyrants live regalarity of which constitutes

indeed, no history of Germany and the perquisite of Tories, is the first presumption,

it never amounts to triotic Englishman a patriotic by a

dur of WASHINGTON, November 21st.

communal needs and the only guar more thanbility and it must | be of likely to

value ante more

antes of freedom. The disorder of re-

that success in the artale temporary consequence of

of remembered The Navy Department announces that or more read by posterity than the võlutions is

and war depends absolute- the American destroyer Chauncey was histories of France which our ancestors the divorce which autocracy makes bely upon the capacity of those who sank is a collision in the war zone yes wrote during the Revolutionary and woon gov

government and communal

nothing new in the them to measure these hum practise ela For similar

There is reasons A terday morning,

Revolutions are obviously less cul- tica and every inculable than more normal developments, Probably 21 lives were lost

cannot write a decent history of phenomena of alleled from the but even revolutions are subject to s certain

history of France in 1790-2 80, too, conditions Oxford is might be

and of Party

might call lave Physica the age, as well as a bias of Church | might that pacifism which has so distanarchy.

rchy for instance, is an inevitable The fact that it is his ed our calculations of the war. duty to resist this bias will always make another aspect of the claude of idealism accompaniment of these sudden subver- the historian unpopular except with

volations, and there is nothing to-sit Meanwhile prophetic barps prise us in the disorder of Russia excent

while inevitable for 16. But anarchy, while

is always temporary - tolerable an evil that the least corn- »

KING GEORGE, RECEIVES A LETTER FROM KING OF SIAM

LONDON, November 21st.

of

War 15

VA or

an Evangelical of the

statesmanship

The Siamese Minister had an audience to whose bies he panders; He ose which revolutions trail with them at their signs of government which we term re-.

of His Majesty the King, to whom he handed an autograph letter from the King of Siam.

birth

shall conseg

petent communities sooner or later And a remedy, and even Mexico, left to

law and order

to understand by the necessity of trying the people and the movements he is to every grove were ringing "War describing to cultivate sympathy and

with a variety

of standards sympathy

Did ye not hear that conquest, ta to the moralist as moral indiffer SMUGGLING GOODS INTO

appears to the mathematician as selen ence and GERMANY,

tino inexactitude. Most of us o can only So sang Wordsworth, und Burke re is returning to understand those historical phenomena ferred in 1760 to the once warlike the Germans nor the war will be fatal AMSTERDAM November 21st.

with

we sympathize That is why Gauls." Tho pacifism of France in that to Russia's domestic salvation Revolu The Neeuwe Rotterdamiche Courant history is so much a matter of partisanship, year helped us to a pacific sestlement with tione, indeed, have little to fear frans

over the Nootka Sound affair, external states that custom officers at Lobith onweal

and weak-knced historian, often contend

to English-speaking seldom autocracy is ultimately gave examining an empty barge from Rotter that it can never be anything else. How door leading to a tank, in which 4,000

milk were found

from

lias been able to beat

Your nervous energy ja like a ban dam destined to Germany, found a trap ever that may be, our present out 100 pro of the eastern shores of democracy at war. The contrary impres from this port as usual, taking Passenger you add to it you overdraw your account gallons of oil, boxes of soxj, gin and les us to genathize with and there the North Pacific The pacifist boot is sion scents to come from that hazy

and Cargo for the above Ports. Passenger commodation in the connecting vessel secured before departure from Hongkong.

Gill and Valnabies and Tes and Cargo for Tely, France and London (ander arrange will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding via Bombay to Marseilles and London be record as the Office

ment)

Parcels will

Account.

Therefore if you suffer from nerves, have sleepless nights brainfag, or lack of ambition caused by overwork worry over-indulgence in alcohol, tobacco, or from excess of any kind, go to your chemist and get a bottle of Sargo! Tablets and take two after each meal and until just before retiring at night Good despondency, hump, and

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ADMISSION TO FINLAND,

thar

of

understand, revolutions better on an ally's and not on an enemy's font collection the Peloponnesian Whe fore to

wo did, and particularly the French to-day, but revolutionary Russia may which does duty for a knowledge of his Revolution of 1780. With our appre outgrow that measure as fast as revolutory with so many educated people, bub hension fixed upon the proceedings of the tionscy France, and despite themselves bistorical scholarship limited to anetoutt

ve the Germaus,

maus will help in the develop Greece might remind us that the Fersian Finnish Ditt, and the Ukraine Rada,

anderstand the unpopularity in ment. They will not, indeed, repeat the Empire did not win the battles of can

by folly of which the Girondins were involved.

Brunswick's proclamation and Marathon and Salamis. In modern times. their federalist propensities, and the ex wage war on the Russian people to restore democracy has almost invariably had the and best of the fighting France herealf was French fury against Marie Antoinette the greater their advance into STOCKHOLM November glet.Taritse has made more intelligible the a Russian autocracy; but the the never led to defeat by a Republican Goy

more difficult will pepo become between But appreciation of the Russian Revolu more

Pruzelan Junkers

Russian democracy Meme tion as throwing light on the French

German

invasion of Russia may will be ciare to the general and it is and the

volution for light on the probable

.course of events in Russia Not that there were

A Special Correspondent at Hapa randa, who entered Finland, was arrested

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eBoots The war imposes some restraint.

no revelations before 1280 or that there in a indeed compounded of the same Democracy is more prone to suicide than

altruism ns was liable to conquest, is nothing to be learnt from them of mixture of egotiam value for the present Aristotle, as we the French Each people imagined itself

their tions and their diagnosis. H

He regards human ills, and in them as an endemic disease requiring that specific they became almost clinical treatment, and revolution One regarded political revolution and the on

views and interests of was never f far from the doors of It is reported the passengers include an Greek city State But the stages of which he writes were retolations after

driven terized tinry

dom, so the city States, and more recently

to adopt the ing to the examination of the luggage not States in

They were mostly faction for being completed.

Repliblics Betite fought under condition which have the bottom of both their international Es Vondes on her hands, no emigrer, and

and Anacharsis Cloote was

got was the no outraged Church. If the werd little in common with the circumstances.

regards

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Russia's ally and

friendly to the

ELECTORAL REFORM BILE the ideas of tus modern world; and props many & momber of the Savitt - brought home the Ruests Wa

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

DISENFRANCHISED.

SOM LONDON. Tovember 21st In the House of Commons, an amend ment to the Electoral Beform Bill disen- franchising conscientious objectors was adopted by 203 vote to 17%

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LORDCE November 22nd

Bilver

to

to the French in 17923, there

The gear of Russian disunion Would

natural history of revolutions can of Petrograd. The rights of little nation hardly be said to have begun until the sink into insignificance compared

common rights of

The greater ternal peace bought by surrender and abolition of slavery and serfdom

of men prostional Compromise and concluded before Russis brought the

includes the reach the of the mass of Timalists are little concerned with has

danger the Revolution far more than the nary doctripe to the national minutine. Revolution was found domestic unity would en

berman

own civil ware should begin liks charity at home of fourteenth century Fra

France

ended sooner had we not been 1 Ball at the tims after Russia, her Allies must be convert would ha

we trace the germs of

think

of one the Twelve ed and then will be time to deal with left st#li

rman Pessang War in the foo The Germans usturally agroeternal

to ficht them without ex- aint The peril to Russia is

the Levellers of the Com and in the forefront of the International not the wat, but social disintegration,

the real

programme for, Stockhola

sories of questions relating to

utions, and baracer

of self-government in I to Morocco, Tripoli, Egypt, Malta

peril which no one else can

ert, if she is true to her Allies she must be false to herself -Times. Inter.

Supplement,