Produced by D Alexander, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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 JAURÈS, 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 86 XVI. AVE, CÆSAR, MORITURI TE SALUTANT 95 XVII. AVE, CÆSAR, 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