thousand times that I would never climb again.
But I know I shall, though I hardly know why. It is not that the fatigue
is so good for the body that can endure it. Nor is it the mere sight of
the wonders of Nature. The very thing that is terrifying is the
attraction, for the unknown calls us always.

But if there is a great pleasure, and a terrible pleasure, in coming
into (and out of) the unknown, it is intensified by the fact that one is
learning what is in one's self. It is a curious fact that writers seem
to have done a great deal of climbing. Many of the first explorers among
the higher Alps may not unjustly be classed among men of letters, and
some of them, no doubt, went on a double errand. They learnt something
of the unknown in two ways.

AN INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST CONGRESS

All Zurich turned out to see the procession that was a mile long and
overlapped, and went past double, going opposite ways, and the skies
were blue as amethyst, and the lake was like the heavens, while
underfoot the white dust lay thick until the growing, hurrying crowd
sent it flying. All trades, with banners and bands and emblems, were
represented; there were iron workers, tin workers, gardeners, women and
children. One beautiful young girl in a cap of liberty waved a red
banner to Freedom among the applause of thousands. For there were eight
thousand in the procession, and the spectators were the half of this
busy Canton making Sunday holiday. At the end of the procession we
rested in the Cantonal Schulplatz, and Grealig spoke, and then Volders,
the violent, strong-voiced Belgian, who called for _la lutte_, and
looked most capable of fighting. He is now dead.

And on the morrow, at the opening of the many-tongued Congress, the
fighting and confusion began and lasted a long, long time. For after
some usual business and congratulations the usual fight about the
Anarchists commenced. It all turned on the invitation, which was worded
in a broad way, so broad as to catch the English Trades Unions, who fear
Socialism as they do the devil, and thus let in Anarchists claiming to
represent trades become corporate by union.

The long hall, decorated by Saint Marx and many flags, quickly filled
with an incongruous mass of four hundred delegates, and the gallery were
soon yelling. Bebel, who kept in the background and pulled the strings,
proposed a limiting amendment about "political action" which the
Anarchists maintained includes revo