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266 of to-day; the proletariat has none of the servile instincts of democracy; it no longer aspires to walk on all fours before a former comrade who has become a chief magistrate, or to swoon for joy before the toilettes of ministers' wives. The men who devote themselves to the revolutionary cause know that they must always remain poor. They carry on their work of organisation without attracting attention, and the meanest hack who scribbles for L'Humanité is much better known than the militants of the Confédération du Travail; for the great majority of the French public, Griffuelhes will never have the notoriety of Rouanet; and in the absence of the material advantages, which they could hardly expect, they have not even the satisfaction that celebrity can give. Putting their whole trust in the movements of the masses, they have no