of arbitration for war would not indeed of itself bring Socialism about, but, by getting rid of an obvious and 285 acknowledged brutality, it would bring into relief the veiled economic tyranny oppressing us, and thus advance Socialism.
Such to our mind is the only means, joined to the gradual shifting of the opinions and aspirations of the masses, for bringing about the beginning of the Socialistic system. Armed revolt or civil war may be an incident of the struggle, and in some form or another probably will be, especially in the latter phases of the revolution; but in no case could it supplant the afore-mentioned change in popular feeling, and it must, at all events, follow rather than precede it.
It is clear that the first real victory of the Social Revolution will be the establishment not indeed of a complete system of communism in a day, which is absurd, but of a revolutionary administration whose definite and conscious aim will be to prepare and further, in all available ways, human life for such a system—in other words, of an administration whose every act will be of set purpose with a view to Socialism.