clear to me in individual instances ; my observant eye daily marked its suc¬ cesses, and with a little imagination I was able to figure out the consequences of it. The only remaining question was whether its founders enjoyed the results of their creation, as seen in its most recent form, or whether they themselves were the victims of an error.
Thus I began to make myself acquainted with the founders of the doctrine in order to study the principles of the Movement. The fact that I achieved my object quicker than I dared to hope at first was thanks to the knowledge I had gained of the Jewish question, though at that time it had not gone very deep. Nothing but that made possible to me a practical comparison of its realities with the theoretic claims of the first apostles of Social Democracy, since it had taught me to under¬ stand the verbal methods of the Jewish people, whose aim it is to hide, or at least cloak, their ideas ; their real objective is not to be read on the lines, but is tucked away well concealed between them.