Excerpt from The Principles of Revolution: A Study in Ideals None of thesegreat revolutionaries desired violence, and if some of them thought that revolution would, 'in fact, induce reactionaries to attempt violence, they meant by the revolution they advocated the peaceful intro duction of a new social order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.