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208 are to be more fluid and intimate than ever.

That the "point of production" and the product are to be made the new basis of reconstruction, does not free us an atom from red-tape complications involved in the amount of organization absolutely necessary to the administrative toil incident to the management of a world market by the "Grand Assembly composed of delegates from National Unions."

It is unthinkable that these bodies can work except through committees entrusted with large powers. It is as unthinkable that these powers can be exercised without large authority and a good deal of permanence of tenure in office.

In distant industries, will those restless minorities, which appear wherever human beings congregate, submit to such authority without the factional resistance which even now plagues the I. W. W. to the point of breaking? There is even less warrant for such hope because Syndicalism rests so confidently and so exclusively on economic and business interests. These are not primarily the harmonizing, brother-making forces in the world.

There is a sentence in some early Christian writer that reads: "We believe because it is impossible." Of this portion of the I. W. W. belief we can say no less. It is a naïve faith which restores again an almost forgotten theology. It awaits a Day of Judgment (for capitalism) as breathlessly as its predecessors. "Predestination" never had a more perfervid utterance in spite of clamorous approval of Mr. Bergson. Never was the poor old world more sharply divided