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 that in several places the workers, because of our lack of stamina and ability to maintain secrecy, began to lose faith in the intelligentsia and to avoid them: The intellectuals, they said, are much too careless and lay them.selves open to police raids!

Any one who has the slightest knowledge of the movement knows that these primitive methods at last began to be recognised as a disease by all thinking Social-Democrats. And in order that the reader, who is not acquainted with the movement, :may have no grounds for thinking that we are "inventing" a special stage or special disease of the :movement, we shall refer once again to the witness we have already quoted. No doubt we shall he excused for the length of the passage quoted:

Admitting that the immediate organisation of fresh circles to take the place of those that have been broken up, "merely proves the virility of the movement … but does not prove the existence of an adequate number of sufficiently fit revolutionary workers," the author concludes:

The lack of practical training among the St. Petersburg revolutionists is seen in the results of their work. The recent trials, especially that of the Self