If he does not believe that all men are equal at birth, only differentiated in growth by environment, he cannot argue that it is possible for all men to be brought to a dead level of equal capacity when they reach their maturity, therefore of equal value to the State and therefore entitled to precisely the same remuneration. He may agree that there are men in the world who cannot now appreciate the music that others enjoy, who would not appreciate the beauty of marble halls if they were lodged in them, but while admitting this he must insist that this is the fault of environment and that with proper training any man can appreciate whatever any other can enjoy. If he cannot prove this he has no excuse for making a dead level of society, for he must admit that some men are made at birth for big things and some for little, that whatever artificial sys: tem he establishes to keep men at a dead level must be maintained by force, like a mixture of oil and water, else the men of big capacity will come up and the men of little capacity will go down.
In this generation the Communist has to deny the findings of every science having to do with human kind to assert that men are born equal in mental capacity or alike in moral tendency, or that environment can either make them alike or keep them so. This, however, is the fundamental premise of his faith, and to prove his theory sound throughout in practice he must bring all men to a level and display them at a dead level to the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.