uniting in perpetuating the great work of Francisco
Ferrer; America, even, tardy always in progressive
ideas, giving birth to a Francisco Ferrer Associa-
tion, its aim being to publish a complete life of Ferrer
and to organize Modern Schools all over the coun-
try, -- in the face of this international revolutionary
wave, who is there to say Ferrer died in vain?

That death at Montjuich, -- how wonderful, how
dramatic it was, how it stirs the human soul. Proud
and erect, the inner eye turned toward the light,
Francisco Ferrer needed no lying priests to give him
courage, nor did he upbraid a phantom for forsaking
him. The consciousness that his executioners repre-
sented a dying age, and that his was the living truth,
sustained him in the last heroic moments.

A dying age and a living truth, The living burying the dead.

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