'Behold, the dreamer cometh!'
'I a dreamer, forsooth!' The young man was vexed to be derided before his new acquaintance. 'It is you Achad-Haamists who must wake up.'
The tea-merchant smiled with a superior air. 'The Vozrozhdenie would do well to study Achad-Haam's philosophy. Then they would understand that their strivings are bound to lead to self-constriction, not self-expression. You were saying that, too, weren't you, Witsky?'
Witsky, who was a young lawyer, demurred. 'What I said was,' he explained to the Sejmist, 'that in your search for territorial-proletariat practice you Sejmists have altogether lost the theory. Conversely the S.S.'s have sacrificed territorial practice to their territorial theory. In our party alone do you find the synthesis of the practical and the ideal. It alone——'
'May I ask whom you speak for?' intervened David.
'The newest Jewish Social Democratic Artisan Party of Russia!' replied Witsky proudly.
'Are you the newest?' inquired David drily.
'And the best. If we desire Palestine as the scene of our social regeneration, it is because the unconditional historic necessity——'
The Sejmist interrupted sadly: 'I see that our Conference will have to decide against relations with you.'
'Pooh! The S.D.A.'s will only be the stronger for isolation. Have we not of ourselves severed our relations with the D.K.'s? In the evolution of the forces of the people——'