World Revolution: The Plot against Civilization
By Nesta H. Webster
Amongst all the books, pamphlets, and newspaper articles that are
now devoted to the World Revolution through which we are passing,
it is strange to notice how little scientific investigation is
being brought to bear on the origins of the movement. A frequent
explanation advanced, and, I believe, the most fallacious, is that
the present unrest must be attributed to *' war weariness." Human
nature, we are told, exasperated by the protracted horror of the
recent international conflict, has become the victim of a crise de
nerfs which finds its expression in world-wide discontent. In
support of this theory we are reminded that former wars have
likewise been followed by periods of social disturbance, and that
by a process of analogy the symptoms may be expected to subside as
the strain of war is relieved, in the same manner as they have
subsided hitherto. It is true that political conflicts between
nations have frequently in the past been followed by social
upheavals - the Napoleonic Wars by industrial troubles in England,
the Franco- Prussian War by revolutionary agitation not only in the
land of the conquered, but of the conquerors - but to regard these
social manifestations as the direct outcome of the preceding
international conflict is to mistake contributing for fundamental
causes. Revolution is not the product of war, but a malady that a
nation suffering from the after-effects of a war is most likely to
develop, just as a man enfeebled by fatigue is more liable to
contract disease than one who is in a state of perfect vigor.
Yet this predisposing cause is by no means essential to the
outbreak of revolutionary fever. The great French Revolution was
not immediately preceded by a war of any magnitude, and to the
observant mind England in 1914 was as near to revolution as in
1919. The intervening World War, far from producing the explosion
in this country, merely retarded it by rallying citizens of all
classes around the standard of national defense.
The truth is that for the last one hundred and forty- five years
the fire of revolution has smoldered steadily beneath the ancient
structure of civilization, and already at moments has burst out
into flame threatening to destroy to its very foundations that
social edifice which eighteen centuries have been spent in
constructing. The crisis of today is then no development of modem
times, but a mere continuation of the immense movement that began
in the middle of the eighteenth century. In a word, it is all one
and the same revolution - the revolution that found its first
expression in France of 1789. Both in its nature and its aims it
differs entirely from former revolutions which had for their origin
some localized or...
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