[ ←109]The case of this young man was not unusual. Many young men of the Oligarchy, impelled by sense of right conduct, or their imaginations captured by the glory of the Revolution, ethically or romantically devoted their lives to it. In similar way, many sons of the Russian nobility played their parts in the earlier and protracted revolution in that country.
[ ←110]The Mercenaries, in the last days of the Iron Heel, played an important role. They cons tituted the balance of power in the struggles between the labor castes and the oligarchs, and now to one side and now to the other, threw their strength according to the play of intrigue and conspiracy.
[ ←111]Out of the ethical incoherency and inconsistency of capitalism, the oligarchs emerged with a new ethics, coherent and definit
