Freedom Does Not Consist In Any Dreamt-of

People Have Learned By Bitter Experience That The "european Fraternal Union Of Peoples" Cannot Be Achieved By Mere Phrases And Pious Wishes, But Only By Profound Revolutions And Bloody Struggles; They Have Learned That The Question Is Not That Of A Fraternal Union Of All European Peoples Under A Single Republican Flag, But Of An Alliance Of The Revolutionary Peoples Against The Counter-revolutionary Peoples, An Alliance Which Comes Into Being Not On Paper, But Only On The Battlefield.

Freedom Is The Recognition Of Necessity.

Hegel Was The First To State Correctly The Relation Between Freedom And Necessity. To Him, Freedom Is The Insight Into Necessity.

Bare-faced Covetousness Was The Moving Spirit Of Civilization From Its First Dawn To The Present Day; Wealth, And Again Wealth, And For The Third Time Wealth; Wealth, Not Of Society, But Of The Puny Individual, Was Its Only And Final Aim.

Thus At Every Step We Are Reminded That We By No Means Rule Over Nature Like A Conqueror Over A Foreign People, Like Someone Standing Outside Nature - But That We, With Flesh, Blood And Brain, Belong To Nature, And Exist In Its Midst, And That All Our Mastery Of It Consists In The Fact That We Have The Advantage Over All Other Creatures Of Being Able To Learn Its Laws And Apply Them Correctly.