There is a _pan-coopération_ as there is a _grève universelle_. And, as the _grève universelle_ (which is the revolution) is regarded by some as the inevitable consummation of trade-unionism, so _la pan-coopération_, alias _la république coopérative_, alias _l’alliance coopérative internationale_ (which is likewise the revolution), is regarded by some as the inevitable consummation of co-operation.
By these latter a critical moment is foreseen when the angry meeting of _le capitalisme autoritaire_ and _le coopératisme libertaire_ will kindle a colossal, world-wide, and purifying conflagration.
“_I came not to send peace, but a sword.... I am come to send fire on the earth._”—JESUS CHRIST.
“_It is not by metaphysics that men will be undeceived: the truth must be proven by deeds._”—VOLTAIRE.
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over, And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him, And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.”
“La force destructive est une force créatice.”—BAKOUNINE.
“_If I were dying of starvation, and had no means of buying a piece of bread, and were to go by a baker’s where bread was within reach, I should help myself to it. And the way I should reason would be this: That bread belongs to the baker, but it is more God’s bread than it is the baker’s, and I am one of God’s little boys, and therefore understand the proximity of this loaf to be the answer to the prayer I offered my Father this morning: ‘Give me this day my daily bread_.’”—DR. CHARLES PARKHURST.
“_His [Dr. Parkhurst’s] principle of necessity is one easily misapplied; but it is right, notwithstanding Dr. Johnson’s reply to the man whose excuse for stealing a loaf of bread was that he ‘must live.’ ‘I don’t see the necessity,’ said the rude moralist. And so said the custodian of morality when David stole the shew-bread for his starving soldiers; but our Lord said he did right._”—Editorial in NEW YORK INDEPENDENT.
“_I hold it blasphemy that a man ought not to fight against authority. There is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it in the beginning._”—GEORGE ELIOT, in Felix Holt, the Radical.