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It is not the will of the majority which ultim- ately prevails; that which ultimately prevails is the ideal of the noblest of each generation. Happy indeed that race and generation in which the ideal of the noblest and the will of the majority unite. (March 18 1916) There are times in history when we realise that it is easier to convert a multitude than it ordin- arily is to convert an individual; when indeed ideas seem to seize upon the masses as contra- distinguished by ordinary times when individuals slowly seize ideas. The propagandist toils on for decades in seeming failure and ignominy, when sud- denly some great event takes place in accord with the principles he has been advocating, and immedi- ately he finds that the seed he has been sowing is springing up in plants that are covering the earth. (Feb 9 1914) IRELAND'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS AS EMBODIERS OF IRISH PATRIOTISM AND INTERNATIONALISM James Connolly: Wolfe Tone was abreast of the revolutionary thought of his day, as are the Socialist Republicans of our day. He saw clearly, as we see, that a dom- inion as rooted in any country as British dominion in Ireland can only be dislodged by a revolutionary impulse in line with the development of the entire epoch. ... He, by voice and pen, inculcated the republican principles of the French Revolution and counselled his countrymen to embark the national movement on the crest of that revolutionary wave... High up in the topmost niches of the temple a liberated human race will erect to the heroes 20

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