The cry for justice : an anthology of the literature of social protest -- . kness, like two spectres, Fear and Indigna-tion bear him company. Alas, while the body stands sobroad and branny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed,stupefied, almost annihilated! Alas, was this too a Breathof God; bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to beunfolded!—That there should one Man die ignorant whohad capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy, wereit to happen more than twenty times in the minute, asby some computations it does. The miserable fraction ofScience which our imited Mankind, in a wide univer
The cry for justice : an anthology of the literature of social protest -- . kness, like two spectres, Fear and Indigna-tion bear him company. Alas, while the body stands sobroad and branny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed,stupefied, almost annihilated! Alas, was this too a Breathof God; bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to beunfolded!—That there should one Man die ignorant whohad capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy, wereit to happen more than twenty times in the minute, asby some computations it does. The miserable fraction ofScience which our imited Mankind, in a wide universeof Nescience, has acquired, why is not this, with all dili-gence, imparted to all? {From Songs of the Dead End)By Patrick MacGill (A young Irishman, called the Navvy poet; born 1890. Fromthe age of twelve to twenty a farm laborer, ditch-digger and quarry-man. As this work goes to press, he is fighting with his regiment inFlanders) AS a bullock falls in the crooked ruts, he fell when the?^*- day was oer. The hunger gripping his stinted guts, his body shakenand THE VAMPIRE E. M. LILIEN (Contemporary German illustrator)
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