86

XVI. AVE, CAESAR, MORITURI TE SALUTANT 95

XVII. AVE, CAESAR, THOSE WHO WISH TO LIVE SALUTE THEE 101

XVIII. MEN IN BATTLE 106

XIX. VOX CLAMANTIS 121

XX. A GREAT EUROPEAN, G. F. NICOLAI 140

XXI. REFLECTIONS ON READING AUGUSTE FOREL 175

XXII. ON BEHALF OF THE INTERNATIONAL OF THE MIND 185

XXIII. A CALL TO EUROPEANS 195

XXIV. OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON 204

XXV. AGAINST VICTORIOUS BISMARCKISM 207

XXVI. DECLARATION OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE MIND 209

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO CHAPTER XX 217

INTRODUCTION

This book is a sequel to _Above the Battle_. It consists of a number of
articles written and published in Switzerland between the end of 1915
and the beginning of 1919. As collective title for the work, I have
chosen "The Forerunners," for nearly all the essays relate to the
dauntless few who, the world over, amid the tempests of war and
universal reaction, have been able to keep their thoughts free, their
international faith inviolate. The future will reverence the names of
these great harbingers, who have been flouted, reviled, threatened,
found guilty, and imprisoned. I speak of such as Bertrand Russell, E. D.
Morel, Maxim Gorki, G. F. Nicolai, Auguste Forel, Andreas Latzko, Henri
Barbusse, Stefan Zweig, and the choice spirits of France, America, and
Switzerland, who have fought for freedom.

To these essays I have prefixed an ode, "Ara Pacis," written during the
first days of the war. It is an act of faith in Peace and Concord.
Another act of faith will comprise the final chapter. This time it will
be faith in action; the faith which, in the face of the brute force of
states and of tyrannical opinion, proclaims the invincible independence
of Thought.

I was half inclined to add to this collection a meditation upon
_Empedocles of Agrigentum and the Reign of Hatred_.[1] But it was
somewhat too long, and its inclusion would have impaired the symmetry of
the volume.

In republishing the articles, I have not kept to a strictly
chronological order. It appeared preferable to group them in accordance
with the nature of their con