Knowledge that Transforms

GERAIANY has become the classic land of modern socialism. As Engels triumphantly wrote shortly before his death, the German workingmen's party forms the real, "massive force" of the large international proletarian arnmy, and, as their conceptions of history and the larger, general ideas of modern socialism were first formulated in their organic connection by German thinkers, by Marx and Engels, these thoughts, which at present enter more and more into the workingmen's parties of all countries, have found in Germany by far the most powerful echo, and have here imprinted upon the entire movement their characteristic stamp. Finally, to repeat again the words of the veteran, Frederick Engels, more than in any other country, this German movement has shown "how the right of universal suffrage is used," and has thus by its example furnished " a new weapon, and one of the most incisive," to the movement in foreign