Discourses of Keidansky

DISCOURSES OF KEIDANSKY
By Bernard G. Richards
SCOTT-THAW CO. 542 Fifth Avenue NEW YORK MCMIII
Copyright 1903 by Scott-Thaw Co. (Incorporated)
First Edition Published March 1903
The Heintzemann Press Boston
The majority of these papers have appeared in the Boston Evening Transcript, and thanks are extended to the editors not only for their permission to reprint the same, but also for the many kindnesses they have shown my friend Keidansky and myself.
All the papers have undergone many changes, and numerous corrections and additions have been made.
B. G. R.
Heretical, iconoclastic, revolutionary; yet the flashing eye, the trembling hand, the stirring voice held us spellbound, removed all differences, and there were no longer any conservatives and extremists; only so many human beings led onward and upward by a string of irresistible words.
Outrageous heresies, some said, yet those who paused to listen for a moment lingered longer, and as they hearkened to the harangues, marked the words and followed the flights of fancy, it came to them that these dreamers of dreams and builders of all sorts of social Utopias upon the vacant lots of the vague future; these ribald rebels holding forth over their glasses of steaming Russian tea in the cafés, or on the street corners under the floating red flag—that they were but a continuation of the prophets of old in Israel.