But some strain in his composition answered to other calls, and upon Tolstoyan grounds he ceased to be a soldier, without ceasing to be a natural leader of men.

His first public appearance was at a meeting in London in support of Home Rule addressed by a number of prominent persons who were not Roman Catholics.

But his interests were plainly not so much Nationalist as broadly humanitarian; freedom for the individual soul rather than for the nation was his object: and he suddenly enrolled himself among Mr.Larkin's allies.

His proposal was outlined to a great assembly of the strikers gathered in front of Liberty Hall: Mr.Larkin set it out.

They must no longer be "content to assemble in hopeless haphazard crowds" but must "agree to bring themselves under the influences of an ordered and sympathetic discipline." "Labour in its own defence must begin to train itself to act with disciplined courage and with organized and concentrated force.
How could they accomplish this?
By taking a leaf out of the book of Carson.