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I Am Only Doing Now What I Have Ever Done; And Ever Will Continue To Do - That Is Adapting Past Experience To Present Reform In The Light Of High Ideals And Future Objects.

I Must Firmly Adhere To The Views I Have Held And Practice, That Socialism To Succeed Must Be Practical, Tolerant, Cohesive And Consciously Compromising With Progressive Forces Running, If Not So Far, In Parallel Lines Towards Its Own Goal.

You Come Before Me This Morning With Clean Hands And Clean Collars. I Want You To Have Clean Tongues, Clean Manners, Clean Morals And Clean Characters.

I Recognise That Socialism Has Ended Its Purely Theoretical Course, And That The Hour To Construct Has Come.

In This Work I Have Received The Opposition Of A Number Of Men Who Only Advocate The Unobtainable Because The Immediately Possible Is Beyond Their Moral Courage, Administrative Ability, And Their Political Prescience.