These are high lights upon the revolution--granted, but they are also
facts. And they are given to the rulers and the ruling classes, not
in bravado, not to frighten them, but for them to consider more
deeply the spirit and nature of this world-revolution. The time has
come for the revolution to demand consideration. It has fastened
upon every civilized country in the world. As fast as a country
becomes civilized, the revolution fastens upon it. With the
introduction of the machine into Japan, socialism was introduced.
Socialism marched into the Philippines shoulder to shoulder with the
American soldiers. The echoes of the last gun had scarcely died away
when socialist locals were forming in Cuba and Porto Rico. Vastly
more significant is the fact that of all the countries the revolution
has fastened upon, on not one has it relaxed its grip. On the
contrary, on every country its grip closes tighter year by year. As
an active movement it began obscurely over a generation ago. In
1867, its voting strength in the world was 30,000.
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