His voice became oratorical. "First we must unionize the world. Now
there are strong unions and weak unions--both arrayed against a
capital better organized and stronger than ever before in the world's
history. Unionism is primary instruction in revolution. We must teach
labor its power, and it is slow to learn. We must prepare, prepare,
prepare, and when all is ready we shall rise. Not one union, not the
unions of a state, of a country, but the unions of the
world...hundreds of millions of men who have been ground down by
aristocracies and wealth for generations. Then we shall have such an
overturning as shall make the French Revolution look like child's
play. ...A World's Republic--that's our aim; a World's Republic ruled
by labor!"

Her eyes glistened as he talked; she could visualize his vision,
could see a united world, cleansed of wars, of boundary lines; a
world where every man's chance of happiness was the equal of every
other man's chance; where wealth and poverty were abolished, from
which slums, degradation, starvation, the sordid wickednesses
compelled by poverty, should have vanished. She could see a world of
peace, plenty, beauty.

It was for this high aim that Dulac worked. His stature increased.
She marveled that such a man could waste his thoughts upon her. She
idealized him; her soul prostrated itself before him.

So much of accomplishment lay behind him--and he not yet thirty years
old! The confidence reposed in him by labor was eloquently testified
to by the sending of him to this important post on the battle line.
Already he had justified that confidence. With years and experience
what heights might he not climb!...This was Ruth's thought. Beside