whole being is braced: experience, intellect, desire, all strong and
working harmoniously, press forward and support each other, and no
enterprise is undertaken where the intellect to carry it out is not
present together with the desire. It requires great intellectual and
moral qualities to bring about a revolution. A rage at present
conditions is not enough.





XI.



Our farmers are already free. The problem with them is not now
concerned with freedom, but how they may be brought into a solidarity
with each other and the nation. To make our proletarians free and
masters of their own energies, in unison with each other and the
national being, is the most pressing labor of the many before us.
Unless there be economic freedom there can be no other freedom. The
right of no individual to subsistence should be at the good will of any
other individual. More than mere comfort depends on it. There are
eternal and august rights of the soul to be safeguarded, and the
economic position of men should be protected by organization and
democratic law. I have already discussed some of the avenues through
which workers in our time have looked with hope. I have little belief
that these roads lead anywhere but back to the old City of Slavery,
however they may seem to curve away at the outset. The strike, on
whatever scale, is no way to freedom, though the strike--or the threat