Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at
once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy
darkness in which we were plunged, and leave it behind.
The new day which is already at hand must find us firm,
prudent, and resolute.

We must leave our dreams and abandon our old beliefs
and friendships from the time before life began. Let us
waste no time in sterile litanies and nauseating mimicry.
Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of
Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them, at the
corner of every one of their own streets, in all the corners
of the globe. For centuries they have stifled almost the
whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual
experience. Look at them today swaying between atomic
and spiritual disintegration.

And yet it may be said that Europe has been successful
in as much as everything that she has attempted has suc-
ceeded.

Europe undertook the leadership of the world with
ardor, cynicism, and violence. Look at how the shadow of
her palaces stretches out ever further! Every one of her
movements has burst the bounds of space and thought.
Europe has declined all humility and all modesty; but she

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