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egular intervals, those tremors which shake the terrestrial globe; a city whose
population unites, like that of no other city on earth, the passion for enjoyment
with the passion for historical action, whose inhabitants know how to live like the
most refined of Athenian epicures and to die like the most unflinching Spartan­
Alcibiades and Leonidas rolled up into one; a city which really is, as Louis Blanc
says, the heart and brain of the world." Friedrich Engels, "Von Paris nach Bern:
Ein Reisefragment," Die neue Zeit, 17, no. 1 (Stuttgart, 1899), p. 10.-In his
foreword to this publication of the posthumous manuscript, Eduard Bernstein
writes: "Although a fragment, this travel sketch gives us, perhaps, a better picture
of its author than does any other of his works" (ibid., p. 8). [a4,1]
A song, (,Jenny the Worker," whose refrain was inspiring to women:
In a garden, 'neath a fragrant bower,
You may hear a familiar bird:
'Tis the singing of Jenny the worker,
At heart content, content with little.
She could be rich, but prefers
The things she has from God.
H. Gourdon de GenouiUac, Les Refrains de la rue, de 1830 ii, 1870 (Paris, 1879),
pp. 67-68. [a4,2]
A reactionary song, after the June Insurrection:
See, see this funeral procession!
It's the archbishop-friends, remove your hats;
Victim, alas, of sacrilegious comhat,
He is fallen for the happiness of all. ",1
H. Gourdon de GenouiUac, Les Refrains de la me, de 1830 ii 1870 (Paris, 1879),
p. 78. [a4a,1]
The proletarians have . .. composed a terrible, bitter (,Marseillai8e," which they
sing in unison in the workshops, and which may be judged by the refrain: 'Sow the
field, all you proles; / It's the idler who will reap. m "Die socialistischen und communistischen
Bewegungen seit der dritten franzosischen Revolution," opening of
Stein's Socialismus und Communismus des heutigen Frankreichs (Leipzig and
Vienna, 1848), p. 210 [from V. Considerant, Theorie du droit de propriete et du
droit de travail ]. [a4a,2]
Buret reports on a story in La Revue britannique of December 1839 (?), p. 29 (?):
("The associated workers of Brighton consider machines to be absolutely
beneficial. (,But,' they add, (,they are fatal as applied in the current regime. Instead
of dutifully serving, as the elves served the shoemaker in the German fairy
tale, the machines have behaved like Frankenstein's monster (German legend),
who, after acquiring life, employed it only in persecuting the man who had given it