PETER KROPOTKIN: TRIBUTES & APPRECIATIONS

from Switzerland for having organized a meeting protesting against the execution of Sophia Perovskaya and her comrades, up till recently when he feverishly wrote his "Terror in Russia," that crushing act of accusation against the Tsar's wholesale murder and torture, he has always been the indefatigable defender of all the victims of social and politcal injustice.

Such is, in a few lines, Kropotkin, the Anarchist, the scientist, and, above all, the man, beloved by his comrades and friends respected and admired by honest people the world over.

W. TCHERKESOFF

"HOW MUCH BETTER THE HISTORIAN AND THE SOCIOLOGIST WOULD UNDERSTAND HUMANITY IF THEY KNEW IT, NOT IN BOOKS ONLY, NOT INA FEW OF ITS REPRESENTATIVES, BUT AS A WHOLE, IN ITS DAILY LIFE, DAILY WORK, AND DAILY AFFAIRS! HOW MUCH MORE MEDICINE WOULD TRUST TO HYGIENE, AND HOW MUCH LESS TO PRESCRIPTIONS, IF THE YOUNG DOCTORS WERE THE NURSES OF THE SICK AND NURSES RECEIVED THE EDUCATION OF THE DOCTORS OF OUR TIME! AND HOW MUCH THE POET WOULD GAIN IN HIS FEELING OF THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE, HOW MUCH BETTER WOULD HE KNOW THE HUMAN HEART, IF HE MET THE RISING SUN AMIDST THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL, HIMSELF A TILLER; IF HE FOUGHT AGAINST THE STORM WITH THE SAILORS ON BOARD SHIP; IF HE KNOW THE POETRY OF LABOR AND REST, SORROW AND JOY, STRUGGLE AND CONQUEST! GREIFT NUR HINEIN IN'S VOLLE MENSCHENLEBEN! GOETHE SAID;EIN JEDER LEBT'S -- NICHT VIELEN IST'S BEKANNT. BUT HOW FEW POETS FOLLOW HIS ADVICE!"

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