This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...adherents alone possessed their souls in quietness and patience. With them there was no demoralisation and never so much as a hint of backsliding; they worked on as before, coolly and resolutely--without haste, yet without rest. This equanimity, this orderly concentration of effort, told immensely in favour of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...adherents alone possessed their souls in quietness and patience. With them there was no demoralisation and never so much as a hint of backsliding; they worked on as before, coolly and resolutely--without haste, yet without rest. This equanimity, this orderly concentration of effort, told immensely in favour of Socialistic progress, enabling both leaders and followers to accomplish unknown feats in agitation and propagandism, and not unfrequently to make their enemies and persecutors subserve the interests of "the cause." Socialistic journals, concealed in bales and boxes, were smuggled across the Swiss and French borders on State railways to the number of many thousands weekly. The imperial post carried and delivered numberless copies of proclaimed publications in sealed envelopes. Often city policemen, after faithfully patrolling the night through, would at daybreak rub their eyes to find that the posting pillars had mysteriously been adorned with Socialistic broadsheets and the streets with ubiquitous handbills, the origin of which no one could trace. When the Deputy Singer was expelled from Berlin he addressed his constituents by circular, as a meeting was not allowed, and during one night twenty thousand copies of a red-hot manifesto were clandestinely placed in the hands of willing recipients. During the era of repression most of the illicit journalistic literature used in Socialistic agitation in Germany came from Switzerland. Beforetime Leipzig had been the publishing centre, and the Voncarts was the chief German organ of the party, but this journal, like the Zukunft and the Neue Gesellschaft, both influential weekly sheets, soon succumbed to the Socialist Law. Thereafter Zurich became the scene of literary activity, aud threequarters of th...
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Add this copy of Germany and the Germans, Volume 2 to cart. $64.56, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
