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The Iron Heel

Jack London

CONTENTS

FORWARD

I. MY EAGLE

II. CHALLENGES

III. JOHNSON‘S ARM

IV. SLAVES OF THE MACHINE

V. THE PHILOMATHS

VI. ADUMBRATIONS

VII. THE BISHOP‘S VISION

VIII. THE MACHINE BREAKERS

IX. THE MATHEMATICS OF A DREAM

X. THE VORTEX

XI. THE GREAT ADVENTURE

XII. THE BISHOP

XIII. THE GENERAL STRIKE

XIV. THE BEGINNING OF THE END

XV. LAST DAYS

XVI. THE END

XVII. THE SCARLET LIVERY

XVIII. IN THE SHADOW OF SONOMA

XIX. TRANSFORMATION

XX. THE LAST OLIGARCH

XXI. THE ROARING ABYSMAL BEAST

XXII. THE CHICAGO COMMUNE

XXIII. THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS

XXIV. NIGHTMARE

XXV. THE TERRORISTS

The Iron Heel

FOREWORD

It cannot be said that the Everhard Manuscript is an important

historical document. To the historian it bristles with errors—not

errors of fact, but errors of interpretation. Looking back across the

seven centuries that have lapsed since Avis Everhard completed

her manuscript, events, and the bearings of events, that were

confused and veiled to her, are clear to us. She lacked perspective.

She was too close to the events she writes about. Nay, she was

merged in the events she has described.

Nevertheless, as a personal document, the Everhard Manuscript is

of inestimable value. But here again enter error of perspective, and

vitiation due to the bias of love. Yet we smile, indeed, and forgive

Avis Everhard for the heroic lines upon which she modelled her

husband. We know to‐day that he was not so colossal, and that he

loomed among the events of his times less largely than the

Manuscript would lead us to believe.

We know that Ernest Everhard was an exceptionally strong man,

but not so exceptional as his wife thought him to be. He was, after

all, but one of a large number of heroes who, throughout the

world, devoted their lives to the Revolution; though it must be

conceded that he did unusual work, especially in his elaboration

and interpretation of working‐class philosophy. “Proletarian

science” and “proletarian philosophy” were his phrases for it, and

therein he shows the provincialism of his mind—a defect,

however, that was due to the times and that none in that day could

escape.

But to return to the Manuscript. Especially valuable is it in

communicating to us the FEEL of those terrible times. Nowhere do

we find more vividly portrayed the psychology of the persons that

lived in that turbulent period embraced between the years 1912

and 1932—their mistakes and ignorance, their doubts and fears

and misapprehensions, their ethical delusions, their violent

passions, their inconceivable sordidness and selfishness. These are

the things that are so hard for us of this enlightened age to

understand. History tells us that these things were, and biology

and psychology tell us why they were; but history and biology and

psychology do not make these things alive. We accept them as

facts, but we are left without sympathetic comprehension of them.

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