and hatred.—I do not mean that he has no
feeling, because I am confident that he loves
little children, but in the pursuit of the cause
of socialism he cannot be thwarted or turned
one side or the other by personal considerations
of any kind. He would go to the scaffold
as calmly as to a meeting of his cabinet. He
is not the “ boss ” of Russia, but he is the inspiring
spirit of Russia. If there is such a
thing embodied in humanity as the spirit of
religion, then Lenin has got it to a larger
extent than any other man I have met.
Sadoul likens him to “ St. Ignatius Loyola,” founder of the “ Society of Jesus,” because he has founded the communist order within which men and women must vow to serve only the commonweal, must have no personal ambitions, must live only for the nation—and Lenin himself does this and thus becomes their leader. He is a doer of the word, not a mere talker. While talking with him it was impossible to imagine that such a man would love or care for violence or butchery, torture or any of the other horrors which are laid to his charge. He is too big in his outlook and much too wide in his sympathies to want to kill anyone. The thing, however, that causes his great determination is the fact that he has travelled, not merely in Russia but throughout the world, and understands theoretically and practically what a cursed thing capitalism can
