Shanghai... Other paris of Chi Tis, 12 per annum ly that this inconsistency never} dawned on Marx's mind. His biographer says of him, "He was a philosopher who lived in the clouds and was, in his personal habits, ascetic. In money matters he.was a child, accep*- ing, like the prophet of. Israel, to. the 'Secretary' Nogtd: brought." His home life" was "such food ozs Dany Haws & Acne Lo, to singularly beautiful. He would would be made) not tolerate a loose jest or song in the presence of. women or children and Frau Marx's THE MAN look of pain on hearing anything Sept, 2, the least approaching Everybody knows that Karl coarseness stopped, in a moment, Marx was the apostle and high the boisterous fun of young priest of socialism. students from the fatherland When hel was: born, im 1818, three men who visited them in London, were already famous for their Marx worked as through driv-efforts to establish a social state, en by a demon. He daily They were Robert Owen, whose tramped the stony streets that practical scheme stretched from his mean home of communal Jabbur proved a failure in Scot-in Dean Street to the British Jand, "and Saint Simon Museum and there, in the midst and Fourier in France, But not un-of fiat lordly assemblage vf tid Karl Marx published the! books, he was rich in everything manifesto of the Communist he cared to possess. He read, League in 1848 and his book marked, learned and inwardly "Kapital" in 1867 was the theory digested all that was worth of socialism placed on, reading on the dreary science of what, may be called, a scientific basis. economics. It was this toil that He: died in 1818 and his book is made him the apostle of _his still the bible of the socialist party. Whilst others wrote froth ea, in every country in fearshalled statistics and postuand spouted invective Karl Marx! lated hard facts, His own hard)
There has Lately been publish- ire generated enthusiasm for ed @ biography of Marx, written German, and from this we see the cause of the poor and both the character of the fiery apostle heredity and environment made and can trace the ¢ireums! him the champion of the opof his birth and the environ-pressed and downtrodden. Whatment, that moulded him into the ever view we may hold of his man he theories, and many of them He came of Jewish ancestry, born in Treves, have been discredited and some on.the Moselle, the son of a proved true, there is no dispute lawyer, though his ancestors that the cause of the workers, wote Rabbis,-and he was in his day, called loudly for a champion. self destined for the Law bu turned aside to philosoph, The Since then much has been life of the Jew in German cities gained and most of the abus Was not then a happy one and he thundered against have been Mar; father became a Chris-rectified. But in this writing tian when son was six years we are not concerned to eval-Marx adopted an atheistic nate the result of his crusade. axeed but had all hu life some We rather wish to get a picture of the fiery characteristics of of the man himself; in his home the Hebrew prophets, ith his wife and children and One of the formative influ-in the Museum, greedily grubences in his life was his marri-bing information from books un-age with Jenny von Westphaler known by name to the vast ma-She occupied a station in life Jority of the countrymen of the] men that wrote them. It must higher than his own and was famed as the prettiest girl in be conceded, too, that this un-(reves. He loved her with un. practical man, who had neither] wavering affection and though te &ilt for arning nor spend-her life with him was, for the ing money, has influenced the most part, lived on the very, thought of students of economics more than> any other writer. verge of starvation, she never' murmured nor ceased to re-One gift he had, the single eye, ciprocate his love.
When she and he might have taken as his died in 1881 a friend said, on motto the apostolic saying "this hearing the news, "then Marx one thing I do." The man who dead too.
He survived her has this characteristic will al-A brief fifteen months before his ways go far. stormy life came to.a close.
After his marriage Marx went Paris where he engaged in
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