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With the single exception of Ferdinand Lassalle, there was no revolutionary leader who was not an obvious impossibilist in practical politics; and Lassalle got himself killed in a romantic and quite indefensible duel after wrecking his health in a titanic oratorical campaign which convinced him that the great majority of the working classes were not ready to join him, and that the minority who were ready did not understand him.
You're an impossibilist. And you give up too easily. You gave up on the new city hall, the anti-fly campaign, club papers, the library-board, the dramatic association just because we didn't graduate into Ibsen the very first thing. You want perfection all at once. Do you know what the finest thing you've done is aside from bringing Hugh into the world? It was the help you gave Dr.
"There seems to be a definite law of the development of Socialism which applies both to the individual and to the group. The law is this: The creedalism and immoderateness of Socialism, other things being equal, vary inversely with its age and responsibility. The average Socialist recruit begins as a theoretical impossibilist and develops gradually into a constructive opportunist.
Blood on the whiteness of a tablecloth might be gorgeous. Then: "Fool! Neurotic impossibilist! Telling yourself orchard fairy-tales at thirty. . . . Dear Lord, am I really THIRTY? That boy can't be more than twenty-five." She went calling.
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