ABSTRACT
The fact that the French Revolution was French, and that it worked fairly well a hundred years ago, and with a Louis Sixteenth sort of person, and as a kind of first rough sketch or draft of just what a revolution might be for once, and what it would have to get over being afterwards, as soon as possible, never seems to have occurred to many people. Being obliged to do his business as a fight against people who helped him all the time, watching and outwitting them as if he were dealing with five thousand intelligent gorillas instead of with fellow human beings, did not interest him. The Trades Unions passed a resolution that it was safer for the men in dealing with Sir George Livesey to keep on being gorillas. Sir George Livesey proposed that they should all try being fellow human beings and being in partnership for a little while and see how it worked.
