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 Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of Society and operates on the other.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition, Oriental in mood, Oriental in temperament.

The Orientals are the extremists of the world. As individuals, they are slaves of Caprice; as types, they are slaves of Authority, The one knows no law, the other knows no exception to the law.

The Oriental in the Russian has set the House of Socialism on fire; and the European in the Russian has not yet found the fire extinguisher.