A word or two dropped at the right moment; perhaps a printed pamphlet; little wedges wherever there were men who wanted something they neither earned nor deserved.

Here and there across the land little flares, one running into the other, like wildfire on the plains, and then--the upheaval.

As in Russia, so now in Germany; later, England and France and here.

The proletariat was gaining power.
He was no fool, this individual.

He knew his clay, the day labourer, with his parrotlike mentality.