The habitual, measured step of existence is interrupted, accustomed criterions become inoperative, former precedents are void. To them revolution is not a mere change of externals: it implies the complete dislocation of life, the shattering of dominant traditions, the annulment of accepted standards. Back of revolution are the millions of living humans who embody its inner spirit, who feel, think, and have their being in it. The abolition of the established - politically and economically, socially and ethically - the attempt to replace it with something different, is the reflex of man’s changed needs, of the awakened consciousness of the people. In this dynamic process the Russian Revolution has gone further than any previous revolution. It bursts the molds which constrict him the more solidified they become, and the more Life ever striving forward leaves them. Revolution breaks the social forms grown too narrow for man.
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