bajcunlv the apostle of nihilism. 209 
International has had least influence. It was founded in 
l^ondon ; it included in its general council some of the leaders 
of the working men's movement in England ; among others, 
Odger, Applegarth, Lucraft, and Hales; many trades unions 
expressed their sympathy for the Association, and several even 
joined It. But they did not furnish it with much money, and 
they have not borrowed from it the revolutionary spirit This 
IS well shown in a letter of one of the members of the Inter- 
national, Eugene Dupont, dated the ist of January, 1870. 
The initiative of the revolution,” he writes, “must come 
from France, but it is in England that it will be accomplished 
P ons Industry is carried on by the concentration of large 
capitalism has developed most 
a ge y, and has thus prepared the causes of its own destruction; 
TK foreigners who will have to set the ball rolling 
he English have all the material necessary for the social 
revolution, but they lack the spirit of generalization and révolu- 
trast between trench and English, as it was manifested in 
and to found a society in which justice shall reign.” “ As for 
'<> an understanding with those