Acknowledgments have also to be made to the following artists, who have kindly consented to have their works used in the volume: Mahonri Young, Wm. Balfour Ker, Ryan Walker, Charles A. Winter, Abastenia Eberle, John Mowbray-Clarke, Isidore Konti, Walter Crane, and Will Dyson. Also to _Life_ Publishing Co. and the _New Age_, London, for permission to use a drawing from their files. Contents BOOK PAGE I. TOIL 27 II. THE CHASM 73 III. THE OUTCAST 121 IV. OUT OF THE DEPTHS 179 V. REVOLT 227 VI. MARTYRDOM 289 VII. JESUS 345 VIII. THE CHURCH 383 IX. THE VOICE OF THE AGES 431 X. MAMMON 485 XI. WAR 551 XII. COUNTRY 593 XIII. CHILDREN 637 XIV. HUMOR 679 XV. THE POET 725 XVI. SOCIALISM 783 XVII. THE NEW DAY 835 List of Illustrations THE HEAVY SLEDGE, _Mahonri Young_ Frontispiece PAGE THE MAN WITH THE HOE, _Jean François Millet_ 32 THE VAMPIRE, _E. M. Lilien_ 33 KING CANUTE, _William Balfour Ker_ 93 THE HAND OF FATE, _William Balfour Ker_ 92 WITHOUT A KENNEL, _Ryan Walker_ 136 THE WHITE SLAVE, _Abastenia St. Leger Eberle_ 137 COLD, _Roger Bloche_ 200 THE PEOPLE MOURN, _Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck_ 201 THE LIBERATRESS, _Theophile Alexandre Steinlen_ 233 OUTBREAK, _Käthe Kollwitz_ 232 THE END, _Käthe Kollwitz_ 297 THE SURPRISE, _Ilyá Efímovitch Repin_ 296 ECCE HOMO, _Constantin Meunier_ 368 DESPISED AND REJECTED OF MEN, _Sigismund Goetze_ 369 "TO SUSTAIN THE BODY OF THE CHURCH, IF YOU PLEASE," _Denis Auguste Marie Raffet_ 392 CHRIST, _John Mowbray-Clarke_ 393 THE DESPOTIC AGE, _Isidore Konti_ 456 "COURAGE, YOUR MAJESTY, ONLY ONE STEP MORE!" 457