Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II FACTIONS AND PARTIES "The organized workers have spurned violence. They have declined all shortcuts. They are offered reforms and concessions, which they take blandly, but without thanks. They move on and on with the terrible, incessant, irresistible power of some natural, eternal force. They have been fought; yet they have not lost a single great battle. They have been flattered anl cajoled without ever once anywhere being appeased. They have been provoked, calumniated, insulted, imprisoned and repressed. They are indifferent to all this. They move on and on with the patience and meekness of a people with the vision that they are soon to inherit the earth."—Violence and the Labor Movement, Robert Hunter. With those with whom we agree, we associate happily, but only for those purposes respecting which we agree; while as to those with whom we disagree, we avoid them in respect to those matters causing disagreement. The result to us as individuals is that our social relationships are often complicated and puzzling to all other persons than ourselves and those few who happen to know our likes and dislikes and, therefore, are able to understand our dispositions and conduct; and at times, puzzling and worrisome even to ourselves. And the result to all society is to divide it into many groups, associations, communities, etc. Moreover, since we are living, we must be changing so that from year to year, from decade to decade, from generation to generation all these groups, associations, etc., are subject to movements, some small, some great, some revolutionary. There is no permanence in human life or indeed in life of any other kind, either individual or social. We see this most clearly perhaps as to other times and as to other lands than as to our own land and time...