WASILEWSKI Zygmunt - The thought of reconstruction. Conversations with a young friend [1912].

Warsaw 1912, Gebethner and Wolff. 14x21 cm, pp. (8), 165, (1), cloth bookbinding. Good condition (small stains of the binding, single delicate soiling of the pages).

"The means of healing the national organism is action, because it puts life on its feet and gives it movement. It produces both the idea and the body of the nation, it gives it full self-knowledge, based on a sense of strength. Purposeful action, that is, work, is the synthesis of spiritual values and the realization of forces, and in our conditions - our entire power. Poland has been facing for a hundred years the problem of work in this broadest sense, as finding the lost biological law within itself. What awaits us is a return to nature, to its fundamentals - both to the essential conservative instincts in our own souls and to the neglected elements in society." [excerpt]