To give your life, to die for the cause--that's
simple. Give more! Give that which is dearer to you than your
life! Then you will see that grow with a vigorous growth which
is dearest to you--your truth!"
He stopped in the middle of the room, his face grown pale and his
eyes half closed. Raising his hand and shaking it, he began slowly
in a solemn tone of assurance with faith and with strength:
"There will come a time, I know, when people will take delight in
one another, when each will be like a star to the other, and when
each will listen to his fellow as to music. The free men will walk
upon the earth, men great in their freedom. They will walk with
open hearts, and the heart of each will be pure of envy and greed,
and therefore all mankind will be without malice, and there will be
nothing to divorce the heart from reason. Then life will be one
great service to man! His figure will be raised to lofty heights--
for to free men all heights are attainable. Then we shall live in
truth and freedom and in beauty, and those will be accounted the
best who will the more widely embrace the world with their hearts,
and whose love of it will be the profoundest; those will be the best
who will be the freest; for in them is the greatest beauty.
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