Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of AppreciationsDebs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)
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Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches, with a Department of Appreciations
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor)
Socialism -- United States; Socialist Party (U.S.)
No man has ever written more personal letters, throbbing with the
ascending song of life, clearly revealing the inner and spiritual
processes of growth, than this comrade whose acknowledged conscious
kinship to the manifestations of the universe does not end with the
sponge on the rock, nor with the highest and most perfect forms of human
and God-like life.
Whoever has taken his magnetic hand has never forgotten the experience,
but has, for the time at least, ceased to note any serious or passing
disagreements and has been conscious of standing in the presence of a
fearless searcher for Truth.
The man that comes crying a message in the wilderness and pointing to
the inevitable farther heights to which humanity must ascend, meets
misunderstanding, insult and rejection, but he is “The Darling of
Tomorrow,” when the heights are reached and the risen races run to mark
the fields of battle with the pathetic monuments of regret and of grief.
Some day, when perhaps his letters are published, or when the stories of
his unselfish, loving life are known to the emancipated workers of the
world, their tears of joy and appreciation will wash out the shame of
contemporary ignorance and neglect.
It may be that he will be an exception and yet live to see the summits
reached and “freedom for all” accomplished. This is not improbable, for
he is young and strong, growing and in step with the life-giving growth
in intelligence of the workers. These are the days of quick growth and
development. Electric wires on land and under the seas are everywhere.
The voice may be heard over the distant mountains and even without
wires, the thoughts and feelings of mankind are transmitted. Moreover
there is something wonderful, as yet little understood, in the
illuminating power of “Class Consciousness,” seeming to unify the
intents and purposes of men and simplifying the hitherto strangling
problems of progress; compelling all forces to move resistlessly in the
forward direction of freedom.
Even obstruction and resistance are harnessed for advancement, plainly
revealing that there is an approaching change for better things, that
men recognize, even while they deny and resist.
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