be ; he has suffered with the workers, and to
suffer together is the cement of human friendship
—he understands these things. Like the
saints of old, he has devoted his whole life to
the destruction of capitalism, which he believes
is the most awful cancer in the life of
humanity. Those who would be his friends
must be as pure hearted as he : he has no room
for any of us who are half and half, he wants
us to be one thing or the other. He does not
understand patriotic socialism. He does
understand the pacifist attitude although he
does not agree with it, but he will have nothing
to do with those socialists who cry out for
the defence of the fatherland, because the
fatherland to him is the world. He typifies in
my judgment, a living expression of the saying of Tom Paine : “ The world is my
country, to do good is my religion, all mankind are my brethren.” Thus he will take no
part and expects other Socialists to take no
part in the wars waged by capitalism. It is his
enthusiasm and his words which have made
soldiers in the Red army realise that in fighting, they are fighting not for Russia but for
all humanity.
I repeat it is strange to me to think of him as having no religion, because his whole life seems to be that of one of the saints of old. Whatever may happen to him in the days to come he will be enshrined in the heart of all
