TUE RISE AND FALL OF THE INTERNATIONAL. I91 
laws nor the persecution of rulers, but from anæmia. Never 
theless, its career, short as it was, has left in the life of to-day 
traces that will not soon disappear. It has given a formidable 
impetus to aggressive Socialism, especially in the Latin countries. 
It has made of the antagonism of employés against employers 
a chronic evil, by persuading the former that they constitute a 
class hopelessly destined to misery and want through the unjust 
privileges of the latter. We shall see this more clearly still by 
following the development of the International in the different 
States.* 
• For the history of the International, the best book, beyond contradiction, 
is the Emancipationskampf des vierten Standes, by Rudolf Meyer, a Con 
servative Socialist. See also Histoire du Socialisme, by B. Malón (Veladini, 
Lugano, 1879). [For the later developments and present position, in the 
several European States and in America, of the Socialistic movement to 
which the International gave rise, see the recent work of Dr. Zacher, 
Government Assessor in Germany, entitled Die Rothe Internationale (Berlin, 
1884).-7r.]