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KARL MARX.There aro few roftdorflof nnwspapt'ra who have not hoard of Karl Marx, tlio reputed chief of tho International-that society which to many has oomo to bo ft name Of terror, and to nmny morn a name of suspicion and dislike. W o have already given so detailed an account of the organisation nml objects of this association thftt we need not now repeat it; but there is always some curiosity to know what the leaders of widely-spread movements are like, and wo arc able to furnish our readers with a I ortriut of the man who is believed to be tho pro-aiding spirit of the new organisation winch is to do such wonders in tho world There are two sorts of partisans which all such associations as the International desire to engage in their behalf. Ke-fortnors of the doctrinaire school, like Proudhon, Cabct, Louis idanc^anu, shall we add, our own John Stuart Mill—and men of science with a theory which they aro ready to acknowledge is but speculation, and yet aro always cn-deavouring to insist upon as, an established scientific scheme—such men as Biickner, Darwin, and, in a skirmishing sort of way, Huxley. Dr. Karl Marx may be said to have attached himself nominally to the latter division of tho movement; but it may bo doubted whether there is not more of tno doctrinaire than the man of science about him, after all. Not that our doctor is a red-hot., furious democrat, ever remij for insurrection. There is nothing violent in the appearance of his fine, calm face; and let us hope that he has been too long among us to misunderstand the English character, for which he has, wo hear, a great personal sympathy. 1 hat rcsnectulnUtu, which the French Bpeak of rather contemptuously when they refer to it as an English characteristic, is in accordance with the habits of Kurl Marx, and ho has recognised it. as a valuable and safe condition of society even among those w ho detire to make vast social alterations. At more than fifty years of age. tlm leader of tho international movcm nt H not hkely to be perverted to snu.s cufolthon, and his past history may iti-t line him to give due weight to the substantial «lenient in the English eharac tr which, after nil, loves beet seitltd order and opportunity for all classes to pursue their work with the certainty of decint reward for labour. Karl Marx was at first educated at Bonn, and uf ter wards at Berlin; but almost immediately on leaving the university ho become involved in the conflict which lius ever
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Illustrated Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Nov 18, 1871
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