PRINCE KRAPOTKINE
Prince Krapotkine has written a letter to Le Cri da JPeuple, which is gvien by the journal aB a leading article. It is on the necessity of further revolution. Tbe style is more vague than in anything I have previ- j ously seen from the same pen. Prince Krapotkine ia severe on the idle and frivolous enjoyers of wealth. He says the idle and sensual man, who is always in search of amusement, inevifcablylgravitates to sensuality. He soils and spoils everything he touches with his moneyi bags. He prostitutes art, the theatre, the press, and literature. He is ready to sacrifice his country to his ease and interests, is too cowardly to risk his own life for anything, but is always ready to massacre the elite of his nation the moment he fears that his pelt may be taken from him. As it is the entire source of all his joys, he sticks to it like grim death, and will sacrifice any life but his own. So long as wealth is distributed as it is, this is inevitable. All the writings of all the moralists in the world will do nothing. The virus, says the Prince, in conclusion, must be extirpated with, if need be, fire and sword.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1759, 18 June 1886, Page 6
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210PRINCE KRAPOTKINE Bruce Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 1759, 18 June 1886, Page 6
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