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Title: Revolution and Other Essays

Author: Jack London

Release Date: July 11, 2007 [eBook #4953]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1910 Mills and Boon edition by David Price, email
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REVOLUTION AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY
JACK LONDON

"History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to
begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."

HUXLEY.

MILLS & BOON, LIMITED
49 RUPERT STREET
LONDON, W.1

_Copyright in the United States of America_, 1910, _by The Macmillan
Company_.

Contents:

Revolution
The Somnambulists
The Dignity of Dollars
Goliah
The Golden Poppy
The Shrinkage of the Planet
The House Beautiful
The Gold Hunters of the North
Foma Gordyeeff
These Bones shall Rise Again
The Other Animals
The Yellow Peril
What Life Means to Me

REVOLUTION

"The present is enough for common souls,
Who, never looking forward, are indeed
Mere clay, wherein the footprints of their age
Are petrified for ever."

I received a letter the other day. It was from a man in Arizona. It
began, "Dear Comrade." It ended, "Yours for the Revolution." I replied
to the letter, and my letter began, "Dear Comrade." It ended, "Yours for
the Revolution." In the United States there are 400,000 men, of men and
women nearly 1,000,000, who begin their letters "Dear Comrade," and end
them "Yours for the Revolution." In Germany there are 3,000,000 men who
begin their letters "Dear Comrade" and end them "Yours for the
Revolution"; in France, 1,000,000 men; in Austria, 800,000 men; in
Belgium, 300,000 men; in Italy, 250,000 men; in England, 100,000 men; in
Switzerland, 100,000 men; in Denmark, 55,000 men; in Sweden, 50,000 men;
in Holland, 40,000 men; in Spain, 30,0