“It does not belong anywhere else; it does not belong on the plains of Russia or in her forests or on her mountains. It is a Prussian thing––a misbegotten monster born of a vile and decadent race,––a horrible parasite, like that one which carries typhus, infects as it spreads from the degraded race that hatched it, crawling from country to country and leaving behind it dead minds, dead hearts, dead souls, and rotting flesh.
“For order and disorder can not both reign paramount on this planet! The one shall slay the other. And Bolshevism is disorder––a violent and tyrannical and autocratic attempt to utterly destroy the vast majority for the benefit of the microscopic minority.
“You can not do it, you Terrorists! Prussia tried terrorism on the world. Where is she to-day? You 356 can not teach by frightfulness. You can not scare beliefs out of anybody.
“Method, order, education––there is no other chance for any propagandist to-day.
“I have stood here night after night proclaiming that my personal conception of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of law and morals was the only intelligent one, and that I should ignore and disregard any other opinion.
“What I preached was Bolshevism! And I was such a fool I didn’t know it. But that’s what I preached. For it is an incitement to disorder to proclaim one’s self above obedience to what has been established as a law to govern all.
“It is an insidious counsel to violence, revolution, Bolshevism and utter anarchy to say to people that they should disregard any law formed by all for the common weal.
“If the marriage law seems unnecessary, unjust, then only by common consent can it be altered; and until it is altered, any who disregard it strike at civilisation!
“If the laws governing capital and labour seem cruel, stupid, tyrannical, only by general consent can they be altered safely.
“You of the Bolsheviki can not come among us dripping with human blood, showing us your fangs, and expect from us anything except a fusillade.