97

VIII. THE IDOLS 107

IX. FOR EUROPE: MANIFESTO OF THE WRITERS AND
THINKERS OF CATALONIA 122

X. FOR EUROPE: AN APPEAL FROM HOLLAND TO THE
INTELLECTUALS OF ALL NATIONS 127

XI. LETTER TO FREDERIK VAN EEDEN 136

XII. OUR NEIGHBOR THE ENEMY 142

XIII. A LETTER TO SVENSKA DAGBLADET OF STOCKHOLM 151

XIV. WAR LITERATURE 153

XV. THE MURDER OF THE ELITE 168

XVI. JAURES 181

NOTES 193

INDEX 195

FOOTNOTES

NOTES OF ETEXT TRANSCRIBER

It is my pleasant duty to thank the brave friends who have defended me
during the past year, in the Parisian press:--at the end of October
1914, Amedee Dunois in _l'Humanite_, and Henri Guilbeaux, in the
_Bataille syndicaliste_; in the same paper, _Fernand Depres_; Georges
Pioch in the _Hommes du Jour_; J. M. Renaitour, in the _Bonnet Rouge_;
Rouanet, in _l'Humanite_; Jacques Mesnil, in the _Mercure de France_,
and Gaston Thiesson, in the _Guerre Sociale_. To these faithful comrades
in the struggle I express my affectionate gratitude.

R. R.

_October, 1915._

PREFACE

A great nation assailed by war has not only its frontiers to protect: it
must also protect its good sense. It must protect itself from the
hallucinations, injustices, and follies which the plague lets loose. To
each his part: to the armies the protection of the soil of their native
land; to the thinkers the defense of its thought. If they subordinate
that thought to the passions of their people they may well be useful
instruments of passion; but they are in danger of betraying the spirit,
which is not the least part of a people's patrimony. One day History
will pass judgment on each of the nations at war; she will weigh their
measure of errors, lies, and heinous follies. Let us try and make ours
light before her!

Children are taught the Gospel of Jesus and the Christian ideal.
Everything in the education they receive at school is designed to
stimulate in them intellectual understanding of the great human family.
Classical education makes them see, beyond the differences of race, the
roots and the common trunk of our c