The Mass Wants None of Them

Great events are usually preceded by apparently small things. Politically, the human race would still be in the most absolute slavery were it not for individual giants who fought inch by inch against the power of kings and tyrants. Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move. The truth of this is borne out in russia with greater force than elsewhere. Thousands of lives have already been consumed by that bloody regime. Yet the monster on the throne is not appeased. How is such a thing possible? When ideas, culture, literature, when the deepest and