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[London, 9 January 1894] 
Dear citizen, 
Please excuse me for writing to you in French. Over the last twenty years I 
have lost whatever little ability I had in the use of Italian. 
I have tried to find a short epigraph of the kind you wish *”’ from the 

* Alexander II I 

works of Marx, whom alone of the modern socialists, it would seem, is able 
to stand on a par with the great Florentine.* However, I have found nothing 
except the following passage taken from the Communist Manifesto (Italian 
edition of Critica Sociale, p. 35): “Al posto della vecehia societa borghese 
divisa in class; cozzanti fra loro, subenta un’associazione, nella quale il 
libero sviluppo di ciascumo é la condizione per il libero sviluppo di tutti”. 

It is almost impossible to sum up the spirit of the new age of the future in 
just a few words without lapsing into either utopianism or empty words. 

Please accept my apologies if the quotation I offer is not wholly satis- 
factory. However, as you must be ready for the 21 (a date that augurs well, 
the execution of citizen Louis Capet), there is no time to lose. 

E con distinti saluti 

Suo