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Title: The Forerunners

Author: Romain Rolland

Translator: Eden Paul
Cedar Paul

Release Date: February 17, 2010 [EBook #31313]

Language: English

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THE FORERUNNERS
BY
ROMAIN ROLLAND

TRANSLATED BY

EDEN AND CEDAR PAUL

HARCOURT, BRACE AND HOWE
NEW YORK 1920

TO

THE MEMORY OF

THE MARTYRS OF THE NEW FAITH

IN THE HUMAN INTERNATIONAL.

TO

JEAN JAURES,

KARL LIEBKNECHT, ROSA LUXEMBURG,

KURT EISNER, GUSTAV LANDAUER,

THE VICTIMS OF BLOODTHIRSTY STUPIDITY

AND MURDEROUS FALSEHOOD,

THE LIBERATORS OF THE MEN

WHO KILLED THEM.

R. R.

_August, 1919._

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

DEDICATION 5

INTRODUCTION 9

I. ARA PACIS 11

II. UPWARDS, ALONG A WINDING ROAD 15

III. TO THE MURDERED PEOPLES 23

IV. TO THE UNDYING ANTIGONE 32

V. A WOMAN'S VOICE FROM OUT THE TUMULT 34

VI. FREEDOM 37

VII. FREE RUSSIA, THE LIBERATOR 39

VIII. TOLSTOY: THE FREE SPIRIT 41

IX. TO MAXIM GORKI 45

X. TWO LETTERS FROM MAXIM GORKI 47

XI. TO THE WRITERS OF AMERICA 51

XII. FREE VOICES FROM AMERICA 55

XIII. ON BEHALF OF E. D. MOREL 67

XIV. YOUNG SWITZERLAND 69

XV. UNDER FIRE