Taken from "The Evolution , la Révolution et l'idéal anarchique (Stock, Paris 1898)" by Elysée Reclus
[...] Although there is always a clear parallel in the events Partial comprising the whole life of society, in reality, the evolution embraces the whole of human affairs, so too must understand the revolution. All progress is supportive, and we wish them all based on our knowledge and our strength: progress social and political, moral and material, scientific, artistic or industrial. In each context we are not only evolution, but in the same way for the revolution, because we realize that history itself is but a series of stages reached after a similar series of preparatory steps. The great intellectual evolution that has emancipated the minds as a logical consequence the empowerment of individuals in all relationships with glialtri. One can therefore conclude that the evolution and revolution are the two subsequent acts of the same phenomenon: the evolution before the revolution, and this precedes a new development, generating future revolutions. Can a change to occur without causing sudden shifts in the balance in your life? The revolution does not necessarily follow the trend, as the act follows the will to act? One other differ only in the moment of their appearance. If a landslide bar a river, the waters gradually pile up upstream of the obstacle, a lake formed by a slow evolution, then suddenly produce an infiltration in the dam downstream and fall of a stone will determine the earthquake: the dam will be violently swept away and the lake emptied back river. So there will be a small revolution of the Earth. If the revolution is always lagging behind the development, the case back to the resistance of the elements: a current of water rustling in the banks because they slow down its course, the lightning bolt in the sky because the atmosphere has opposed the spark emerged from the clouds. Each transformation of matter, each realization of an idea, at the very moment of change is constrained by the inertia of the environment, the new phenomenon can not be achieved except through a more violent effort or fatigue of the more intense the higher resistance. Herder has already said, speaking of the French Revolution: "The seed into the earth and for a long time looks dead, then suddenly throws out his spear, move the hard earth that covers it, does violence to the enemy clay: here it becomes a plant, flower and ripen its fruit. " And the boy was born as? After nine months left in the dark of the womb, also manages to come out with violence, tearing its covering, and sometimes even killing the mother. So are the revolutions necessary consequences of the changes that preceded them. [...]
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