Conditions will not remain long as they are. They are preparing decisive coups in Bavaria, Hanover, Austria and Hungary. New combinations will amaze your statesmen and diplomats, who are ignorant of the fact that changes and upheavals operate in cycles of three and seven. What they call chance is the working of law. Spiritual forces operate through the physical, and nature will take a hand in the reactions in Petrograd and Moscow. Cold, hunger and starvation will dissipate the hopes of the ruling minority. Untold numbers will be sacrificed.
During the French Revolution philosophers and thinkers were decapitated. In Russia such men are killed by hunger, the difference being one of method.
Such conditions will be repeated in different countries until people learn that the spiritual cannot be separated from the material without pain and slaughter.
After all the long-winded conferences and shorthand reports nothing is left but a confusion of blots on the tissue paper of time.
I may say more on another occasion.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
The happy-go-lucky humor of the day is no match for the cool calculation of European communists. English and American humorists do for the public what the court jester once did for blasé kings.
In the sardonic temper of the Russian revolutionist, I see a return of the French temper of 1793.