THE RIGHT TO LIBERTY [TRANSLATION]
Reading edition
For the past year the horror of war, and the struggle of our minds to comprehend its inevitable necessity!—Holy Writ says: “For all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword,” and now in our day a poor woman of the people ends her letter with these words: “There must be war, that war may perish”—and this poor woman of the people has two sons at the front.
Infinite is the suffering, and over the earth wailing and despair!
Through all this sorrow in the world, through all these young lives cut short, may victory bring to every land the crown of life—the right to Liberty.
Eleonora Duse
Il Cerro, Boscolungo Pistoiese
AUGUSTE RODIN
TWO WOMEN
FROM AN ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR SKETCH