present its claims (the longer it is detained the less chance of a violent revolution), and (2) whether the old order is ready to make concessions, so as to let the new order come in gradually.
There are logically only two ways: either evolution or revolution. Arrest evolution, and revolution is inevitable. Unfortunately the majority of the propertied and power-possessing classes conceive "evolution" merely as a sanction of their "eternal and holy rights." At any rate, "evolution" is not disposed to keep up with the growth of the new order by satisfying its claims. "Holy Russia" was not unique. Many things are Holy in this sense. There are too many such sanctities. Land ownership is certainly "Holy." The wage system is "Holy." But there comes the fatal contradiction: a social order develops; "Holy" things never do. They are worshipped until they are mercilessly smashed.
